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Jeremiah 51:58
The Message
Jeremiah 51:58
The Message
58 God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks:
“The city walls of Babylon—those massive walls!—
will be flattened.
And those city gates—huge gates!—
will be set on fire.
The harder you work at this empty life,
the less you are.
Nothing comes of ambition like this
but ashes.”
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Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson
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