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A Judgement on Babylon

21 A pronouncement(A) concerning the desert by the sea:(B)

Like storms that pass over the Negev,
it comes from the desert, from the land of terror.
A troubling vision is declared to me:
‘The treacherous one acts treacherously,(C)
and the destroyer destroys.
Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all the groaning.’

Therefore I am[a] filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labour.(D)
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:3 Lit my waist is, or my insides are