36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, aI will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
bI will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
“Behold, aI will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
bI will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
37 aBabylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
bAn astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
A dwelling place for jackals,
bAn astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant.
39 In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
aI will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.
aI will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the Lord.
41 “Oh, how aSheshach is taken!
Oh, how bthe praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
Oh, how bthe praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!
43 aHer cities are a desolation,
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where bno one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
A dry land and a wilderness,
A land where bno one dwells,
Through which no son of man passes.
44 I will punish aBel in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, bthe wall of Babylon shall fall.
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, bthe wall of Babylon shall fall.
45 “Mya people, go out of the midst of her!
And let everyone deliver1 himself from the fierce anger of the Lord.
And let everyone deliver1 himself from the fierce anger of the Lord.
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