“Declare among the nations and proclaim,
    set up a banner and proclaim,
    conceal it not, and say:
(A)‘Babylon is taken,
    (B)Bel is put to shame,
    Merodach is dismayed.
(C)Her images are put to shame,
    her idols are dismayed.’

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The Idols of Babylon and the One True God

46 (A)Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
    their idols are on beasts and livestock;
these things you carry are borne
    as burdens on weary beasts.

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And behold, here come riders,
    horsemen in pairs!”
(A)And he answered,
    (B)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
(C)and all the carved images of her gods
    he has shattered to the ground.”

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47 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming
    when (A)I will punish the images of Babylon;
(B)her whole land shall be put to shame,
    and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

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44 And I will punish (A)Bel in Babylon,
    and (B)take out of his mouth (C)what he has swallowed.
(D)The nations shall no longer flow to him;
    (E)the wall of Babylon has fallen.

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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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The Messages of the Three Angels

Then I saw another angel (A)flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to (B)those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. And he said with a loud voice, (C)“Fear God and (D)give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and (E)worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the (F)springs of water.”

Another angel, a second, followed, saying, (G)“Fallen, fallen is (H)Babylon the great, (I)she who made all nations drink (J)the wine of the passion[a] of her sexual immorality.”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 14:8 Or wrath

11 The Lord will be awesome against them;
    (A)for he will famish all the gods of the earth,
and (B)to him shall bow down,
    each in its place,
    all (C)the lands of the nations.

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Jehoiachin Released from Prison

31 (A)And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed[a] (B)Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

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  1. Jeremiah 52:31 Hebrew reign, lifted up the head of

52 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
    when (A)I will execute judgment upon her images,
(B)and through all her land
    the wounded shall groan.

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31 One (A)runner runs to meet another,
    and one messenger to meet another,
to tell the king of Babylon
    that his city is taken on every side;

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(A)Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
    (B)wail for her!
(C)Take balm for her pain;
    perhaps she may be healed.

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46 (A)At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations.”

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14 “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in (A)Migdol;
    proclaim in (B)Memphis and (C)Tahpanhes;
say, (D)‘Stand ready and be prepared,
    for (E)the sword shall devour around you.’

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12 (A)I shall kindle a fire (B)in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them (C)and carry them away captive. (D)And he shall clean the land of Egypt (E)as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace. 13 He shall break the (F)obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, (G)and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’”

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10 “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
    and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, ‘He who scattered Israel will (A)gather him,
    and will keep him (B)as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

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18 Therefore hear, O nations,
    and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.

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16 Warn the nations that he is coming;
    announce to Jerusalem,
“Besiegers come (A)from a distant land;
    they shout against the cities of Judah.

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18 “For I know[a] their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming[b] (A)to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, 19 and I will set a sign among them. And from them (B)I will send survivors to the nations, to (C)Tarshish, (D)Pul, and (E)Lud, who draw the bow, to (F)Tubal and (G)Javan, (H)to the coastlands far away, (I)that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 66:18 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew lacks know
  2. Isaiah 66:18 Hebrew and it is coming

“You have heard; now see all this;
    and will you not declare it?
From this time forth (A)I announce to you new things,
    hidden things that you have not known.

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Envoys from Babylon

39 (A)At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, (B)sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

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19 and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.

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On a bare hill (A)raise a signal;
    cry aloud to them;
wave the hand for (B)them to enter
    the gates of the nobles.

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(A)And you will say in that day:

(B)“Give thanks to the Lord,
    call upon his name,
(C)make known his deeds among the peoples,
    proclaim (D)that his name is exalted.

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Declare his glory among the nations,
    his marvelous works among all the peoples!

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