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The word which the Lord spoke concerning ^(a)Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:

"^(b)Declare and proclaim among the nations. Proclaim it and ^(c)lift up a standard. Do not conceal it but say, ‘^(d)Babylon has been captured, ^(e)Bel has been put to shame, ^[a]Marduk has been ^[b]shattered; Her ^(f)images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.'

For a nation has come up against her out of the ^(g)north; it will make her land ^(h)an object of horror, and there will be ⁽ⁱ⁾no inhabitant in it. Both man and beast have wandered off, they have gone away!