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14 The dead do not live;
    shades do not rise
because you have punished and destroyed them
    and wiped out all memory of them.(A)

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He called out with a mighty voice,

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
    It has become a dwelling place of demons,
a haunt of every foul spirit,
    a haunt of every foul bird,
    a haunt of every foul and hateful beast.[a](A)
For all the nations have fallen[b]
    from the wine of the wrath of her prostitution,
and the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality[c] with her,
    and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power[d] of her luxury.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.2 Other ancient authorities read a haunt of every foul and hateful bird
  2. 18.3 Other ancient authorities read all the nations have drunk
  3. 18.3 Or prostitution
  4. 18.3 Or resources

18 What use is an idol
    once its maker has shaped it—
    a cast image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in what has been made,
    though the product is only an idol that cannot speak!(A)
19 Alas for you who say to the wood, “Wake up!”
    to silent stone, “Rouse yourself!”
    Can it teach?
See, it is gold and silver plated,
    and there is no breath in it at all.(B)

20 But the Lord is in his holy temple;
    let all the earth keep silence before him!(C)

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12 I, I am he who comforts you;
    why then are you afraid of a mere mortal who must die,
    a human being who fades like grass?(A)
13 You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
    who stretched out the heavens
    and laid the foundations of the earth.
You fear continually all day long
    because of the fury of the oppressor,
who is bent on destruction.
    But where is the fury of the oppressor?(B)

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19 Now if people say to you, “Consult the ghosts and the familiar spirits that chirp and mutter; should not a people consult their gods, the dead on behalf of the living,(A)

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The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
    but the name of the wicked will rot.(A)

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28 Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor
    and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;(A)

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(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.

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20 “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

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19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
    like loathsome carrion,[a]
clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword,
    who go down to the stones of the Pit
    like a corpse trampled underfoot.(A)
20 You will not be joined with them in burial
    because you have destroyed your land;
    you have killed your people.

May the descendants of evildoers
    nevermore be named!(B)
21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
    because of the guilt of their father.[b]
Let them never rise to possess the earth
    or cover the face of the world with cities.(C)

22 I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 14.19 Cn Compare Gk: Heb like a loathed branch
  2. 14.21 Syr Compare Gk: Heb fathers

What will you do on the day of punishment,
    in the calamity that will come from far away?
To whom will you flee for help,
    and where will you leave your wealth,(A)

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13 May his posterity be cut off;
    may his name be blotted out in the second generation.(A)

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The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you have rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.(A)

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28 There you will serve gods made by human hands, objects of wood and stone that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.(A)

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30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.(A)

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19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to wage war against the rider on the horse and against his army.(A) 20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed in its presence the signs by which he deceived those who had received the brand of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. 21 And the rest were killed by the sword of the rider on the horse, the sword that came from his mouth, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

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19 Your dead shall live; their corpses[a] shall rise.
    Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy![b]
For your dew is a radiant dew,
    and the earth will give birth to those long dead.[c](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 26.19 Cn Compare Syr Tg: Heb my corpse
  2. 26.19 Q ms Compare Gk Syr: MT dust, awake and shout for joy!
  3. 26.19 Heb to the shades