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"I will rise up against them," declares the Lord of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon ^(ab)name and survivors, ^(ac)offspring and posterity," declares the Lord .

"I will also make it a possession for the ^(ad)hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of ^(ae)destruction," declares the Lord of hosts.

The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, "Surely, ^(af)just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

to ^(ag)break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his ^(ah)yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

This is the ^(ai)plan ^[m]devised against the whole earth; and this is the ^(aj)hand that is stretched out against all the nations.

For ^(ak)the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"