Isaiah 13:20-22
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20 It will never be inhabited
or lived in from generation to generation;(A)
a nomad will not pitch his tent there,
and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.
21 But desert creatures will lie down there,
and owls will fill the houses.
Ostriches will dwell there,
and wild goats will leap about.(B)
22 Hyenas will howl in the fortresses,
and jackals, in the luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time is almost up;
her days are almost over.
Isaiah 14:23
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23 “I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls,[a] and I will sweep her away with a broom of destruction.”
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
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- Isaiah 14:23 Or hedgehogs
Isaiah 21:9
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9 Look, riders come—
horsemen in pairs.”
And he answered, saying,
“Babylon has fallen,(A) has fallen.
All the images of her gods
have been shattered on the ground.”(B)
Jeremiah 51:41-44
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41 How Sheshach has been captured,
the praise(A) of the whole earth seized.
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!(B)
42 The sea has risen over Babylon;(C)
she is covered with its turbulent waves.
43 Her cities have become a desolation,(D)
a dry and arid land,
a land where no one lives,
where no human being passes through.
44 I will punish Bel(E) in Babylon.
I will make him vomit what he swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him;
even Babylon’s wall will fall.
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