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Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I wil plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee, and I will drie vp her sea, and make her springs drie.

And Babylon shal become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing without an inhabitant.

They shall roare together like lions; they shall yell as lions whelps.

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the Lord.

I will bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, like rammes with hee goates.

How is Sheshach taken? and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised? how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?

The sea is come vp vpon Babylon: she is couered with the multitude of the waues thereof.

Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wildernes, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doeth any sonne of man passe thereby.

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