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Babylon will suddenly fall and be broken.
    Weep for it!
Get healing lotion for its pain.
    Perhaps it can be healed.

“The nations say, ‘We would have healed Babylon.
    But it can’t be healed.
So let’s leave it. Let’s each go to our own land.
    Babylon’s sins reach all the way to the skies.
    They rise up as high as the heavens.’

10 “The people of Judah say,
    ‘The Lord has made things right for us again.
So come. Let’s tell in Zion
    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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