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35 “May the violence done to us and to our children[a] be upon Babylon,”
says she who dwells in Zion.
“May our blood be on those who live in Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

36 Therefore this is what the Lord says:
Watch! I will defend your cause
and take revenge for you.
I will dry up her sea
and make her springs dry.
37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins,
a haunt for jackals,
a horror and a target of contempt,[b]
and no one will live there.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:35 Or flesh
  2. Jeremiah 51:37 Literally hissing