(A)For he has humbled
    the inhabitants of the height,
    the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
    casts it to the dust.

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And he called out with a mighty voice,

(A)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
    She has become (B)a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt (C)for every unclean spirit,
    a haunt (D)for every unclean bird,
    a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.

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37 and Babylon shall become (A)a heap of ruins,
    (B)the haunt of jackals,
(C)a horror (D)and a hissing,
    without inhabitant.

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11 Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
    and look on everyone who is (A)proud and abase him.
12 Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low
    and (B)tread down the wicked (C)where they stand.
13 (D)Hide them all in (E)the dust together;
    bind their faces in the world below.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 40:13 Hebrew in the hidden place

64 and say, (A)‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, (B)and they shall become exhausted.’”

Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,
declares the Lord,
    which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
    and roll you down from the crags,
    (A)and make you a burnt mountain.
26 No (B)stone shall be taken from you for a corner
    and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be (C)a perpetual waste,
    declares the Lord.

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11 I will punish (A)the world for its evil,
    and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will (B)put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
    (C)and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.

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31 “Behold, I am against you, O (A)proud one,
    declares the Lord God of hosts,
(B)for your day has come,
    the time when I will punish you.
32 (C)The proud one shall stumble and fall,
    with none to raise him up,
(D)and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
    and it will devour all that is around him.

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The Humiliation of Babylon

47 (A)Come down and sit in the dust,
    O virgin (B)daughter of Babylon;
(C)sit on the ground without a throne,
    O daughter of (D)the Chaldeans!
(E)For you shall no more be called
    tender and delicate.

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19 (A)And it will hail when the forest falls down,
    (B)and the city will be utterly laid low.

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11 (A)And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
    as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
    but the Lord (B)will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill[a] of his hands.
12 And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,
    lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 25:11 Or in spite of the skill

13 You said in your heart,
    (A)‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
    (B)I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
    in the far reaches of the north;[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:13 Or in the remote parts of Zaphon

12 (A)For the Lord of hosts has a day
    against all that is proud and lofty,
    against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;

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