58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

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58 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Babylon’s thick wall(A) will be leveled
    and her high gates(B) set on fire;
the peoples(C) exhaust(D) themselves for nothing,
    the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”(E)

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58 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The broad (A)wall of Babylon
    shall be leveled to the ground,
(B)and her high gates
    shall be burned with fire.
(C)The peoples labor for nothing,
    and (D)the nations weary themselves only for fire.”

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58 This is what the Lord of Armies says:

Babylon’s thick walls will be totally demolished,(A)
and her high gates set ablaze.
The peoples will have labored for nothing;(B)
the nations will weary themselves only to feed the fire.

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58 Thus says the Lord of hosts,

“The broad (A)wall of Babylon will be completely razed
And her high (B)gates will be set on fire;
So the peoples will (C)toil for nothing,
And the nations become (D)exhausted only for fire.”

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