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50.23 :How is the hammer of the whole earth
 * Cut asunder and broken!
 * How is Babylon become
 * A desolation among the nations!
 * I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,
 * And thou wast not aware;
 * Thou art found, and also caught,
 * Because thou hast striven against the.
 * The hath opened His armoury,
 * And hath brought forth the weapons of His indignation;
 * For it is a work that the Lord of hosts
 * Hath to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
 * Come against her from every quarter, open her granaries,
 * Cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly;
 * Let nothing of her be left.
 * Slay all her bullocks, let them go down to the slaughter;
 * Woe unto them! for their day is come,
 * The time of their visitation.
 * Hark! they flee and escape out of the land of Babylon,
 * To declare in Zion the vengeance of the our God,
 * The vengeance of His temple.
 * Call together the archers against Babylon,
 * All them that bend the bow;
 * Encamp against her round about,
 * Let none thereof escape;
 * Recompense her according to her work,
 * According to all that she hath done, do unto her:
 * For she hath been arrogant against the ,
 * Against the Holy One of Israel.
 * Therefore shall her young men fall in her broad places,
 * And all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day,
 * Saith the.


 * Behold, I am against thee, O thou most arrogant,
 * Saith the Lord of hosts;
 * For thy day is come,
 * The time that I will punish thee.
 * And the most arrogant shall stumble and fall,
 * And none shall raise him up;
 * And I will kindle a fire in his cities,
 * And it shall devour all that are round about him.


 * Thus saith the of hosts:
 * The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together;
 * And all that took them captives hold them fast;
 * They refuse to let them go.
 * Their Redeemer is strong,
 * The of hosts is His name;
 * He will thoroughly plead their cause,
 * That He may give rest to the earth,
 * And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
 * A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the ,
 * And upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
 * A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools;
 * A sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
 * A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots,
 * And upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her,
 * And they shall become as women;
 * A sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
 * A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up;