Lament for Babylon

47 (A)Come down and sit in the dust,
O (B)virgin (C)daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no longer be called (D)tender and delicate.

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(A)Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt,
O virgin of Israel!
Again you will [a]take up your (B)tambourines,
And go forth to the dances of the (C)merrymakers.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:4 Or be adorned with

21 “Set up for yourself roadmarks,
Place for yourself guideposts;
(A)Direct your [a]mind to the highway,
The way by which you went.
(B)Return, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:21 Lit heart