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"When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And ^(bz)make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may ^(ca)sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the Lord .

"I will bring them down like ^[ao]lambs ^(cb)to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.

"How ^[ap](cc)Sheshak has been captured, And ^(cd)the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

"The ^[aq](ce)sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

"Her cities have become an ^(cf)object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which ^(cg)no man lives And through which no son of man passes.

"^(ch)I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed ^(ci)come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer ^(cj)stream to him. Even the ^(ck)wall of Babylon has fallen down!

"^(cl)Come forth from her midst, My people, And each of you ^(cm)save yourselves From the fierce anger of the Lord .

"Now ^(cn)so that your heart does not grow faint, And you are not afraid at the ^(co)report that will be heard in the land— For the report will come ^[ar]one year, And after that ^[as]another report in ^[at]another year, And violence will be in the land With ^(cp)ruler against ruler—

Therefore behold, days are coming When I will punish the ^(cq)idols of Babylon; And her whole land will be ^(cr)put to shame And all her slain will fall in her midst.

"Then ^(cs)heaven and earth and all that is in them Will shout for joy over Babylon, For ^(ct)the destroyers will come to her from the north," Declares the Lord .

^(cu)Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon ^(cv)the slain of all the earth have fallen.

You ^(cw)who have escaped the sword, Depart! Do not stay! ^(cx)Remember the Lord from afar, And let Jerusalem ^[au]come to your mind.

^(cy)We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For ^(cz)aliens have entered The holy places of the Lord's house.

"Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord , "When I will punish her ^(da)idols, And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.

"Though Babylon should ^(db)ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify ^[av]her lofty stronghold, From ^(dc)Me destroyers will come to her," declares the Lord .

The ^(dd)sound of an outcry from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

For the Lord is going to destroy Babylon, And He will make her loud ^[aw]noise vanish from her. And their ^(de)waves will roar like many waters; The tumult of their voices ^[ax]sounds forth.

For the ^(df)destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men will be captured, Their ^(dg)bows are shattered; For the Lord is a God of ^(dh)recompense, He will fully repay.

"I will ^(di)make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a ^(dj)perpetual sleep and not wake up," ^(dk)Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.