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35 The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the habitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith Jerusalem.

36 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, and will dry up her spring.

37 And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.

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35 May the violence(A) done to our flesh[a] be on Babylon,”
    say the inhabitants of Zion.
“May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,”
    says Jerusalem.(B)

36 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“See, I will defend your cause(C)
    and avenge(D) you;
I will dry up(E) her sea
    and make her springs dry.
37 Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
    a haunt(F) of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,(G)
    a place where no one lives.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:35 Or done to us and to our children