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Babylon will suddenly fall and be shattered.
    Cry for it.
        Bring medicine for its pain.
            Maybe it can be healed.
We wanted to heal Babylon, but it couldn’t be healed.
    Let’s abandon it and go to our own land.
        Yahweh has judged Babylon.
        Its judgment is complete.

10 Yahweh has brought about our victory.
    Let’s announce in Zion what Yahweh our Elohim 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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