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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 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has (A)devoured me, he has crushed me,
He has set me down like an (B)empty vessel;
He has (C)swallowed me like a monster,
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
He has washed me away.
35 May the (D)violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The [a]inhabitant of Zion will say;
And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
Jerusalem will say.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:35 Lit inhabitress