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“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Euphrates,[a] and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”(A)

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  1. 13.4 Or to Parah

10 Writhe and groan,[a] O daughter Zion,
    like a woman in labor,
for now you shall go forth from the city
    and camp in the open country;
    you shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
    there the Lord will redeem you
    from the hands of your enemies.(A)

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  1. 4.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain

63 When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it, and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,(A) 64 and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ”[a]

Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.(B)

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  1. 51.64 Gk: Heb on her. And they shall weary themselves

Psalm 137

Lament over the Destruction of Jerusalem

By the rivers of Babylon—
    there we sat down, and there we wept
    when we remembered Zion.(A)

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