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51.6 :Babylon hath been a golden cup in hand,
 * That made all the earth drunken;
 * The nations have drunk of her wine,
 * Therefore the nations are mad.
 * Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed,
 * Wail for her;
 * Take balm for her pain,
 * If so be she may be healed.
 * We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed;
 * Forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country;
 * For her judgment reacheth unto heaven,
 * And is lifted up even to the skies.
 * The hath brought forth our victory;
 * Come, and let us declare in Zion
 * The work of the our God.


 * Make bright the arrows,
 * Fill the quivers,
 * The hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes;
 * Because His device is against Babylon, to destroy it;
 * For it is the vengeance of the ,
 * The vengeance of His temple.
 * Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon,
 * Make the watch strong,
 * Set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes;
 * For the hath both devised and done
 * That which He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
 * O thou that dwellest upon many waters,
 * Abundant in treasures,
 * Thine end is come,
 * The measure of thy covetousness.
 * The of hosts hath sworn by Himself:
 * Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm,
 * And they shall lift up a shout against thee.


 * He that hath made the earth by His power,
 * That hath established the world by His wisdom,
 * And hath stretched out the heavens by His discernment;
 * At the sound of His giving a multitude of waters in the heavens,
 * He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth;
 * He maketh lightnings at the time of the rain,
 * And bringeth forth the wind out of His treasuries;
 * Every man is proved to be brutish, for the knowledge—
 * Every goldsmith is put to shame by the graven image—
 * That his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
 * They are vanity, a work of delusion;
 * In the time of their visitation they shall perish,
 * The portion of Jacob is not like these;
 * For He is the former of all things,
 * And [Israel] is the tribe of His inheritance;
 * The of hosts is His name.


 * Thou art My maul and weapons of war,
 * And with thee will I shatter the nations,
 * And with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
 * And with thee will I shatter the horse and his rider,
 * And with thee will I shatter the chariot and him that rideth therein;