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We have turned pale because we have heard reproach, dishonor has covered our faces. For foreigners have come into the holy places of the house of Jehovah.

So, behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that I will punish on her idols, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

Though Babylon should go up to the heavens, and though she should fortify her strong height, plunderers shall come from Me to her, states Jehovah.

A sound of a cry from Babylon, and great ruin from the land of Chaldeans!

For Jehovah is stripping Babylon, and the great voice will perish out of her. And her waves will roar like many waters, the noise of their voice is given.

Because the plunderer is coming on her, on Babylon, and her mighty men are captured, their bows are shattered; for Jehovah the God of recompenses repaying shall repay.

And I will make her rulers drunk, also her wise ones, her governors, and her rulers, and her prefects; and they shall sleep a never-ending sleep, and not awaken, says the King whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.

So says Jehovah of Hosts, The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. And the peoples shall labor as for vanity, and the peoples as for fire; and they shall be weary.