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Babylon will suddenly fall and be broken.
    Cry for her!
Get balm for her pain.
    Maybe she can be healed.

“Foreigners in Babylon say, ‘We tried to heal Babylon.
    But she cannot be healed.
So let us leave her and each go to his own country.
    Babylon’s guilt is as high as the clouds.
    Babylon’s guilt reaches to the sky.’

10 “The people of Judah say, ‘The Lord has shown us to be right.
    Come, let us tell about it in Jerusalem.
    Let us tell about what the Lord our God has done.’

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Babylon will suddenly fall(A) and be broken.
    Wail over her!
Get balm(B) for her pain;
    perhaps she can be healed.

“‘We would have healed Babylon,
    but she cannot be healed;
let us leave(C) her and each go to our own land,
    for her judgment(D) reaches to the skies,
    it rises as high as the heavens.’

10 “‘The Lord has vindicated(E) us;
    come, let us tell in Zion
    what the Lord our God has done.’(F)

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