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12 Your mother will be ·very ashamed [humiliated];
    the woman who gave birth to you will be disgraced.
·Soon Babylonia will be the least important of all [L It brings up the backside of] the nations.
    She will be an empty, dry ·desert [wilderness].
13 Because of the Lord’s anger,
    no one will live there.
    She will be completely ·empty [desolate].
Everyone who passes by Babylon will be shocked.
    They will shake their heads when they see all her injuries.

14 “Take your positions for war against Babylon,
    all ·you soldiers with [L who draw] bows.
Shoot your arrows at Babylon! Do not ·save any of them [L spare any arrows],
    because Babylon has sinned against the Lord.

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