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Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Behold, I am going to ^(C1)plead your case And ^(C2)take vengeance for you; And ^(C3)I will dry up her ^(F1)sea And make her fountain dry.

-"^(C1)Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An ^(C2)object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

-"They will roar together like ^(C1)young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.

-"When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And ^(C1)make them drunk, so that they may rejoice in triumph, And may ^(C2)sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.

"I will bring them down like ^(F1)lambs ^(C1)to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.

"How ^(F1)(C1)Sheshak has been captured, And ^(C2)the praise of the whole earth has been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!

-"The ^(F1)(C1)sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed by its roaring waves.

-"Her cities have become an ^(C1)object of horror, A dry land and a desert, A land in which ^(C2)no one lives And through which no ^(F1)one of mankind passes.

-"^(C1)I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed ^(C2)come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer ^(C3)stream toward him. Even the ^(C4)wall of Babylon has fallen down!