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Everyone is stupid and without knowledge; goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols; for their images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Not like these is the Lord , the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.

I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the Lord .

No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, says the Lord .

Raise a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her, summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her, bring up horses like bristling locusts.

Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.

The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord 's purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.

Therefore thus says the Lord : I am going to defend your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry;

Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall shout for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, says the Lord .

Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.

We are put to shame, for we have heard insults; dishonor has covered our face, for aliens have come into the holy places of the Lord 's house.

For the Lord is laying Babylon waste, and stilling her loud clamor. Their waves roar like mighty waters, the sound of their clamor resounds;

for a destroyer has come against her, against Babylon; her warriors are taken, their bows are broken; for the Lord is a God of recompense, he will repay in full.

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

The captain of the guard took away the small bowls also, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the ladles, and the bowls for libation, both those of gold and those of silver.

As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord , the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weighing.

As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits; it was hollow and its thickness was four fingers.

For his allowance, a regular daily allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, as long as he lived, up to the day of his death.