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22 Sounds of war
and the noise of destruction
    can be heard.
23 Babylonia was a hammer
pounding every country,
    but now it lies broken.
What a shock to the nations
    of the world!

24 Babylonia challenged me,
    the Lord God All-Powerful,
but that nation doesn't know
it is caught in a trap
    that I set.

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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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