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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 Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar has eaten us alive;
    he’s drained us of strength;
        he’s left us for dead.[a]
He’s gobbled us up like a great sea monster;
    he’s filled his belly with our treasures;
        and he’s spit us out.
35 May Babylon be violated as our bodies were,
    say the inhabitants of Zion.
May our blood be on the Babylonians,
    say those from Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:34 Or He’s made us an empty container.