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51.35 :And: 'My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea',
 * Shall Jerusalem say.


 * Therefore thus saith the :
 * Behold, I will plead thy cause,
 * And take vengeance for thee;
 * And I will dry up her sea,
 * And make her fountain dry.
 * And Babylon shall become heaps,
 * A dwelling-place for jackals,
 * An astonishment, and a hissing,
 * Without inhabitant.
 * They shall roar together like young lions;
 * They shall growl as lions' whelps.
 * With their poison I will prepare their feast,
 * And I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed,
 * And sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,
 * Saith the.
 * I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
 * Like rams with he-goats.
 * How is Sheshach taken!
 * And the praise of the whole earth seized!
 * How is Babylon become an astonishment
 * Among the nations!
 * The sea is come up upon Babylon;
 * She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
 * Her cities are become a desolation,
 * A dry land, and a desert,
 * A land wherein no man dwelleth,
 * Neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
 * And I will punish Bel in Babylon,
 * And I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up,
 * And the nations shall not flow any more unto him;
 * Yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
 * My people, go ye out of the midst of her,
 * And save yourselves every man
 * From the fierce anger of the.
 * And let not your heart faint, neither fear ye,
 * For the rumour that shall be heard in the land;
 * For a rumour shall come one year,
 * And after that in another year a rumour,
 * And violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
 * Therefore behold, the days come,
 * That I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon,
 * And her whole land shall be ashamed;
 * And all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
 * Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein,
 * Shall sing for joy over Babylon;
 * For the spoilers shall come unto her
 * From the north, saith the.
 * As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall,
 * So at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.
 * Ye that have escaped the sword,
 * Go ye, stand not still;
 * Remember the from afar,
 * And let Jerusalem come into your mind.
 * 'We are ashamed, because we have heard reproach,
 * Confusion hath covered our faces;
 * For strangers are come
 * Into the sanctuaries of the house.'


 * Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the ,
 * That I will do judgment upon her graven images;
 * And through all her land the wounded shall groan.