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44 I will punish Bel in Babylon.
    I will make Bel spit out everything that it has swallowed.
        Nations will no longer stream to Babylon,
            and its walls will fall.

45 “Leave it, my people!
    Run for your lives!
        Run from the burning anger of Yahweh.
46 Don’t lose courage or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land.
    One rumor comes one year; another rumor comes the next year.
        Rumors of violence are in the land.
        Rumors that one ruler will fight against another are in the land.

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44 I will punish Bel(A) in Babylon
    and make him spew out(B) what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him.
    And the wall(C) of Babylon will fall.

45 “Come out(D) of her, my people!
    Run(E) for your lives!
    Run from the fierce anger(F) of the Lord.
46 Do not lose heart(G) or be afraid(H)
    when rumors(I) are heard in the land;
one rumor comes this year, another the next,
    rumors of violence in the land
    and of ruler against ruler.

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