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The people shall take them
    and bring them to their place,
and the house of Israel shall possess them
    in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids;
and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were,
    and they shall rule over their oppressors.

The Fall of Babylon’s King

In the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

How has the oppressor ceased!
    The golden city ceased!

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