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34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me.
    He has crushed me.
    He has made me an empty vessel.
He has, like a monster, swallowed me up.
    He has filled his mouth with my delicacies.
    He has cast me out.
35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!”
    the inhabitant of Zion will say; and,
“May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
    will Jerusalem say.

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34 “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me.
He has set me aside like an empty dish;
he has swallowed me like a sea monster;(A)
he filled his belly with my delicacies;
he has vomited me out.[a]
35 Let the violence done to me and my family be done to Babylon,”
says the inhabitant of Zion.
“Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
says Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 51:34 Lit has rinsed me off