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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.'
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Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
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"Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
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Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?'
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"All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house;
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But you are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
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You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
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Prepare slaughter for his children Because of the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up and possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities."
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"For I will rise up against them," says the Lord of hosts, "And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and posterity," says the Lord.
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"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the Lord of hosts.
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The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, so it shall stand: