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which shall never be forgotten. walls are thrown down, for it is the vengeance of
6 My people have been a lost flock, their shep- the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath
herds have caused them to go astray, and have done, so do to her.
made them wander in the mountains: they have 16 Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him
gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten that holdeth the sickle in the time of harvest:
their resting place. for fear of the sword of the dove every man shall
7 All that found them, have devoured them: return to his people, and every one shall flee to
and their enemies said: We have not sinned in his own land.
so doing: because they have sinned against the 17 Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have
Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord driven him away: first the king of Assyria de-
the hope of their fathers. voured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor king
8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go of Babylon hath broken his bones.
forth out of the land of the Chaldeans: and be 18 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the
ye as kids at the head of the flock. God of Israel: Behold I will visit the king of
9 For behold I raise up, and will bring against Babylon and his land, as I have visited the king
Babylon an assembly of great nations from the of Assyria.
land of the north: and they shall be prepared 19 And I will bring Israel again to his habi-
against her, and from thence she shall be taken: tation: and he shall feed on Carmel, and Bason,
their arrows, like those of a mighty man, a de- and his soul shall be satisfied in mount Ephraim,
stroyer, shall not return in vain. and Galaad.
10 And Chaldea shall be made a prey: all that 20 In those days, and at that time, saith the
waste her shall be filled, saith the Lord. Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for,
11 Because you rejoice, and speak great and there shall be none: and the sin of Juda, and
things, pillaging my inheritance: because you are there shall none be found: for I will be merciful
spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and have to them, whom I shall leave.
bellowed as bulls. 21 Go up against the land of the rulers, and
12 Your mother is confounded exceedingly, punish the inhabitants thereof, waste, and de-
and she that bore you is made even with the stroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do
dust: behold she shall be the last among the na- according to all that I have commanded thee.
tions, a wilderness unpassable, and dry. 22 A noise of war in the land, and a great
13 Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall destruction.
not be inhabited, but shall be wholly desolate: 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth bro-
every one that shall pass by Babylon, shall be ken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into
astonished, and shall hiss at all her plagues. a desert among the nations!
14 Prepare yourselves against Babylon round 24 I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and
about, all you that bend the bow: fight against thou art taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not
her, spare not arrows: because she hath sinned aware of it: thou art found and caught, because
against the Lord. thou hast provoked the Lord.
15 Shout against her, she hath every where 25 The Lord hath opened his armoury, and
given her hand, her foundations are fallen, her hath brought forth the weapons of his wrath: