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Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not permit his prisoners to return home?’
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“All the kings of the nations, all of them lie [dead] in glorious array,
Each one in his own sepulcher.
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“But you [king of Babylon] have been cast out of your tomb (denied burial)
Like a rejected branch,
Clothed with the slain who are pierced by the sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit [into which carcasses are thrown],
Like a dead body trampled [underfoot].