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But I have stripped Esau's descendants completely and uncovered their hiding places, so that they can no longer hide. All the people of Edom are destroyed. Not one of them is left.

The Lord said, "The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified.

So listen to the plan that I have made against the people of Edom, and to what I intend to do to the people of the city of Teman. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified.

He said, "I will kill all the archers who have made Elam so powerful.

They are attacked by all who find them. Their enemies say, ‘They sinned against the Lord , and so what we have done is not wrong. Their ancestors trusted in the Lord , and they themselves should have remained faithful to him.'

Raise the war cry all around the city! Now Babylon has surrendered. Its walls have been broken through and torn down. I am taking my revenge on the Babylonians. So take your revenge on them, and treat them as they have treated others.

So its young men will be killed in the city streets, and all its soldiers will be destroyed on that day. I, the Lord , have spoken.

"Babylonia, you are filled with pride, so I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, am against you! The time has come for me to punish you.

"And so Babylon will be haunted by demons and evil spirits, and by unclean birds. Never again will people live there, not for all time to come.

So listen to the plan that I have made against the city of Babylon and to what I intend to do to its people. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified.

"Give the signal to attack! Blow the trumpet so that the nations can hear! Prepare the nations for war against Babylonia! Tell the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz to attack. Appoint an officer to lead the attack. Bring up the horses like a swarm of locusts.

And so the Lord said to the people of Jerusalem, "I will take up your cause and will make your enemies pay for what they did to you. I will dry up the source of Babylonia's water and make its rivers go dry.

And so the time is coming when I will deal with Babylonia's idols. The whole country will be put to shame, and all its people will be killed.

Babylonia caused the death of people all over the world, and now Babylonia will fall because it caused the death of so many Israelites. I, the Lord , have spoken."

So then, I say that the time is coming when I will deal with Babylon's idols, and the wounded will groan throughout the country.

Then pray, ‘ Lord , you have said that you would destroy this place, so that there would be no living creatures in it, neither people nor animals, and it would be like a desert forever.'

The Lord became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia,

and so Nebuchadnezzar came with all his army and attacked Jerusalem on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign. They set up camp outside the city, built siege walls around it,

On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,

in the territory of Hamath. There the king had them beaten and put to death. So the people of Judah were carried away from their land into exile.