33 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:

‘Daughter Babylon is like a threshing-floor
    at the time it is trampled;
    the time to harvest her will soon come.’

34 ‘Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us,
    he has thrown us into confusion,
    he has made us an empty jar.
Like a serpent he has swallowed us
    and filled his stomach with our delicacies,
    and then has spewed us out.
35 May the violence done to our flesh[a] be on Babylon,’
    say the inhabitants of Zion.
‘May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,’
    says Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:35 Or done to us and to our children