12 your mother shall be utterly shamed,
    and she who bore you shall be disgraced.
Behold, she shall be the last of the nations,
    (A)a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13 (B)Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited
    but shall be an utter desolation;
(C)everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled,
    (D)and hiss because of all her wounds.
14 (E)Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around,
    (F)all you who bend the bow;
shoot at her, spare no arrows,
    (G)for she has sinned against the Lord.

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