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37 A sword against her[a] horses and against her[b] chariots,
    and against all the foreign troops in her midst,
    so that they may become women!
A sword against all her treasures,
    that they may be plundered!
38 A drought[c] against her waters,
    that they may be dried up!
For it is a land of images,
    and they go mad over idols.

39 Therefore wild animals shall live with hyenas in Babylon,[d] and ostriches shall inhabit her; she shall never again be peopled, or inhabited for all generations.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:37 Cn: Heb his
  2. Jeremiah 50:37 Cn: Heb his
  3. Jeremiah 50:38 Another reading is A sword
  4. Jeremiah 50:39 Heb lacks in Babylon

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