43 Her cities have become a horror,
    (A)a land of drought and a desert,
(B)a land in which no one dwells,
    and through which no son of man passes.

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They did not say, (A)‘Where is the Lord
    who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
who led us (B)in the wilderness,
    in a land of deserts and pits,
in a land of drought and deep darkness,
    in a land that none passes through,
    where no man dwells?’

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20 (A)It will never be inhabited
    or lived in for all generations;
no (B)Arab will pitch his tent there;
    no (C)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

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29 (A)The land trembles and writhes in pain,
    (B)for the Lord's purposes against Babylon stand,
to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
    without inhabitant.

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10 therefore, (A)behold, I am against you and (B)against your streams, and (C)I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, (D)from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush. 11 (E)No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.

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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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39 (A)“Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon,[a] and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations. 40 (B)As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, (C)so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:39 Hebrew lacks in Babylon

12 your mother shall be utterly shamed,
    and she who bore you shall be disgraced.
Behold, she shall be the last of the nations,
    (A)a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

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