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Rh :And with thee will I shatter man and woman,
 * And with thee will I shatter the old man and the youth,
 * And with thee will I shatter the young man and the maid;
 * And with thee will I shatter the shepherd and his flock,
 * And with thee will I shatter the husbandman and his yoke of oxen,
 * And with thee will I shatter governors and deputies.
 * And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea
 * All their evil that they have done in Zion, in your sight;
 * Saith the.


 * Behold, I am against thee,
 * O destroying mountain, saith the ,
 * Which destroyest all the earth;
 * And I will stretch out My hand upon thee,
 * And roll thee down from the rocks,
 * And will make thee a burnt mountain.
 * And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner,
 * Nor a stone for foundations;
 * But thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the.


 * Set ye up a standard in the land,
 * Blow the horn among the nations,
 * Prepare the nations against her,
 * Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz;
 * Appoint a marshal against her;
 * Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.
 * Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes,
 * The governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof,
 * And all the land of his dominion.
 * And the land quaketh and is in pain;
 * For the purposes of the are performed against Babylon,
 * To make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
 * The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight,
 * They remain in their strongholds;
 * Their might hath failed, they are become as women;
 * Her dwelling-places are set on fire;
 * Her bars are broken.
 * One post runneth to meet another,
 * And one messenger to meet an other,
 * To tell the king of Babylon
 * That his city is taken on every quarter;
 * And the fords are seized,
 * And the castles they have burned with fire,
 * And the men of war are affrighted.


 * For thus saith the of hosts, the God of Israel:
 * The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor
 * At the time when it is trodden;
 * Yet a little while, and the time of harvest
 * Shall come for her.
 * Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me,
 * He hath crushed me,
 * He hath set me down as an empty vessel,
 * He hath swallowed me up like a dragon,
 * He hath filled his maw with my delicacies;
 * He hath washed me clean.
 * 'The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon',
 * Shall the inhabitant of Zion say;