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38 A drought will diminish their water supply, and it will dry up.
Babylon is a land of idols, statues that will go crazy with fear.
39 That is why desert animals will live with hyenas.
Desert owls will also live there.
It will no longer be inhabited or lived in for generations.
40 Babylon will be like Sodom, Gomorrah, and their neighboring cities
when I, God, destroyed them.
No one will live there.
No human will stay there,” declares the Lord.

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38 A drought on[a] her waters!(A)
    They will dry(B) up.
For it is a land of idols,(C)
    idols that will go mad with terror.

39 “So desert creatures(D) and hyenas will live there,
    and there the owl will dwell.
It will never again be inhabited
    or lived in from generation to generation.(E)
40 As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah(F)
    along with their neighboring towns,”
declares the Lord,
“so no one will live there;
    no people will dwell in it.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:38 Or A sword against