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The Lord has this to say about the nation of Ammon: The people of Israel have plenty of children to inherit their lands. So why have you worshipers of the god Milcom taken over towns and land belonging to the Gad tribe?

Raise the signal flags; shout so all nations can hear— Babylon will be captured! Marduk, Babylon's god, will be ashamed and terrified, and his idols broken.

The Lord said: People of Israel and Judah, when these things happen you will weep, and together you will return to your land and worship me, the Lord your God.

I, the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, punished the king of Assyria, and I will also punish the king of Babylonia.

Babylonia challenged me, the Lord God All-Powerful, but that nation doesn't know it is caught in a trap that I set.

Attack Babylon, enemy archers; set up camp around the city, and don't let anyone escape. It challenged me, the holy God, so do to it what it did to other cities.

Everyone in Israel and Judah is guilty. But I, the Lord All-Powerful, their holy God, have not abandoned them.

God used his wisdom and power to create the earth and spread out the heavens.

But the Lord , Israel's God, is all-powerful. He created everything, and he chose Israel to be his very own.

I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, and I make this promise— "Soon Babylon will be leveled and packed down like a threshing place at harvest time."

I will punish Marduk, the god of Babylon, and make him vomit up everything he gobbled down. Then nations will no longer bring him gifts, and Babylon's walls will crumble.

An enemy will attack and destroy Babylon. Its soldiers will be captured and their weapons broken, because I am a God who takes revenge against nations for what they do.

The Prophet Speaks: I have suffered much because God was angry.

God caused my skin and flesh to waste away, and he crushed my bones.

God built a fence around me that I cannot climb over, and he chained me down.

God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.

God was like a bear or a lion waiting in ambush for me;

God took careful aim and shot his arrows

God has turned my life sour.

or cheat anyone out of what is rightfully theirs. God Most High sees everything,