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29 Now the land shakes and writhes,
for Adonai’s plans against Babylon arise—
to make the land of Babylon
a desolation without inhabitant.
30 Babylon’s warriors ceased fighting.
They stay in their strongholds.
Their might is exhausted.
They have become like women.
Her dwellings are set ablaze,
her gate-bars are broken.
31 One runner runs to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another,
to tell Babylon’s king that his city
has been taken from end to end.

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