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43 The towns of Babylon will be empty.
    It will become a dry and desert land.
No one will live there.
    No one will even travel through it.
44 I will punish the god named Bel in Babylon.
    I will make Bel spit out what he has swallowed.
The nations will not come and worship him anymore.
    And Babylon’s walls will fall down.

45 “Come out of there, my people!
    Run for your lives!
    Run away from my great anger.

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43 Her towns will be desolate,
    a dry and desert(A) land,
a land where no one lives,
    through which no one travels.(B)
44 I will punish Bel(C) in Babylon
    and make him spew out(D) what he has swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him.
    And the wall(E) of Babylon will fall.

45 “Come out(F) of her, my people!
    Run(G) for your lives!
    Run from the fierce anger(H) of the Lord.

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