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22 There’s the sound of war in the land
    and enormous devastation.
23 How the hammer of the whole earth
    has been broken and shattered into pieces!
How Babylon has become a wasteland
    among the nations!
24 You set a trap for others, Babylon,[a]
    but you yourself were caught in it unaware;
        you have been found and captured
        because you have defied the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:24 Or I set a trap for you, Babylon, and you were

22 The noise(A) of battle is in the land,
    the noise of great destruction!
23 How broken and shattered
    is the hammer(B) of the whole earth!(C)
How desolate(D) is Babylon
    among the nations!
24 I set a trap(E) for you, Babylon,
    and you were caught before you knew it;
you were found and captured(F)
    because you opposed(G) the Lord.

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