For the Lord has a day of (A)vengeance,
A year of recompense for the [a]cause of Zion.
[b]Its streams will be turned into pitch,
And its loose earth into (B)brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.
10 It will (C)not be quenched night or day;
Its (D)smoke will go up forever.
From (E)generation to generation it will be desolate;
(F)None will pass through it forever and ever.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:8 Or controversy
  2. Isaiah 34:9 I.e. Edom’s

Lament for Babylon

“And (A)the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and (B)lived [a]sensuously with her, will (C)weep and lament over her when they (D)see the smoke of her burning,

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:9 Or luxuriously

18 and were (A)crying out as they (B)saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘(C)What city is like (D)the great city?’

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And a second time they said, “(A)Hallelujah! (B)Her smoke rises up forever and ever.”

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