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⁷Babylon hath been a golden cup in Lord's hand,

That made all the earth drunken;

The nations have drunk of her wine,

Therefore the nations are mad.

⁸Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed,

Wail for her;

Take balm for her pain,

If so be she may be healed.

⁹We 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.

¹⁰The Lord hath brought forth our victory;

Come, and let us declare in Zion

The work of the Lord our God.

 

¹¹Make bright the arrows,

Fill the quivers,

The Lord 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 Lord,

The vengeance of His temple.

¹²Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon,

Make the watch strong,

Set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes;

For the Lord hath both devised and done

That which He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

¹³O thou that dwellest upon many waters,

Abundant in treasures,

Thine end is come,

The measure of thy covetousness.

¹⁴The Lord 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.

 

¹⁵He 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;

¹⁶At 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;

¹⁷Every 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.

¹⁸They are vanity, a work of delusion;

In the time of their visitation they shall perish,

¹⁹The portion of Jacob is not like these;

For He is the former of all things,

And [Israel] is the tribe of His inheritance;

The Lord of hosts is His name.

 

²⁰Thou art My maul and weapons of war,

And with thee will I shatter the nations,

And with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

²¹And with thee will I shatter the horse and his rider,

And with thee will I shatter the chariot and him that rideth therein;

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