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Judah’s Complaint against Babylon

34 “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me
    and crushed me.
He set me down
    like an empty vessel.
He swallowed me like a monster,
    and filled his belly with my delicacies.
        Then he washed me away.
35 May the violence done to me
    and my flesh be on Babylon,”
        says the inhabitant of Zion.
“May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
    says Jerusalem.

36 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“Look, I’m going to argue your case
    and take vengeance for you.
I’ll dry up her sea
    and make her fountain dry.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:36 I.e. dry up the source of Babylon’s waters