Jeremiah 50:38-40

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³⁸ Sword, strike the waters of Babylon.
    Those waters will be dried up.
Babylon has many, many idols.
    These idols show that the people of Babylon are foolish.
    So bad things will happen to them.
³⁹ Babylon will never again be filled with people.
    Wild dogs, ostriches, and other desert animals will live there.
    But no one will live there ever again.
⁴⁰ God completely destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
    and the towns around them.
In the same way no one will live in Babylon,
    and no one will ever go to live there.”
This is what the Lord says.