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Render to her as she herself has rendered,
    and repay her double for her deeds;
    mix a double dose for her in the cup she mixed.(A)

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29 Summon archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do to her—for she has arrogantly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.(A)

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15 Raise a shout against her from all sides,
    “She has surrendered;
her bulwarks have fallen;
    her walls are thrown down.”
For this is the vengeance of the Lord:
    take vengeance on her;
    do to her as she has done.(A)

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O daughter Babylon, you devastator![a]
    Happy shall they be who pay you back
    what you have done to us!(A)

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  1. 137.8 Or you who are devastated

19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered great Babylon and gave her the wine cup of the fury of his wrath.(A)

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10 they will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and they will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.(A)

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The Doom of Babylon

24 I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.(A)

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The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,(A)

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18 Let my persecutors be shamed,
    but do not let me be shamed;
let them be dismayed,
    but do not let me be dismayed;
bring on them the day of disaster;
    destroy them with double destruction!(A)

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18 And[a] I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.(A)

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  1. 16.18 Gk: Heb And first

14 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will pay him back for his deeds.(A)

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12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
    today I declare that I will restore to you double.(A)

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23 If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,(A) 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,(B) 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

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And I heard the angel of the waters say,

“You are just, O Holy One, who are and were,
    for you have judged these things;(A)
because they shed the blood of saints and prophets,
    you have given them blood to drink.
It is what they deserve!”

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49 Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel,
    as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.(A)

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with whom the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality[a] and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.”(A)

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  1. 17.2 Or prostitution

10 If you are to be taken captive,
    into captivity you go;
if you kill with the sword,
    with the sword you must be killed.

Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.(A)

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Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
that she has served her term,
    that her penalty is paid,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double for all her sins.(A)

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Because their[a] shame was double
    and dishonor was proclaimed as their lot,
therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;
    everlasting joy shall be theirs.(A)

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  1. 61.7 Heb your