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27 ·Kill [L Put to the sword] all its bulls [C the young men in Babylon];
    let them go down to the slaughter [C killed like animals].
·How terrible it will be for [Woe to] them, because ·the time has come for their defeat [L their day has come];
    it is time for them to be punished.
28 Listen to the people ·running [fleeing] to escape the country of Babylon!
    They are telling ·Jerusalem [L Zion; C the location of the Temple]
how the Lord our God is punishing Babylon as it deserves
    for destroying his Temple.

29 “Call for ·the archers [L all those who draw the bow]
    to come against Babylon.
·Tell them to surround the city [L Camp all around it],
    and let no one escape.
Pay her back for what she has done;
    do to her what she has done to other nations.
Babylon acted with ·pride [arrogance] against the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel.

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