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So Jehovah says this: Behold, I will strive for you and take vengeance for you. And I will dry up her sea and make her well dry.

And Babylon shall become heaps, a home for jackals, a horror and a hissing, without a dweller.

They shall roar together like lions, they shall growl like lions' cubs.

In their heat, I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk so that they exult and sleep a never ending sleep and never awaken, says Jehovah.

I shall bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

How Sheshach is captured! And how the praise of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become a ruin among the nations!

The sea has come up over Babylon, she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

Her cities have become a ruin, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it.

And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him; yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.