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A Judean woman raises her hands beside an emptied jar and damaged homes.
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Jeremiah 51:34-37

Zion’s grievance

The Scroll Against Babylon · Jeremiah 51

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34Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me down like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has cast me out.

35“My violence and my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the inhabitant of Zion. “And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

36Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am about to plead your case and take vengeance for you; I will dry up her sea and make her spring dry.

37And Babylon will become heaps, a haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, with no inhabitant.

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