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Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
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Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.
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"Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, Who will not regard silver; And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
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Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children.
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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
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But wild beasts of the desert will lie there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches will dwell there, And wild goats will caper there.
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The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, And her days will not be prolonged."