Jeremiah 51:1-2

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51 The Lord says,
“I will cause a powerful, destructive
    wind to blow against Babylon and the Babylonians.^[a]
²I will send foreigners to winnow^[b] Babylon,
    and they will take everything from the city.
Armies will surround the city,
    and there will be terrible destruction.

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 51:1 Babylonians Literally, “Leb Kammai.” In Hebrew this was a secret way of writing “Chaldeans.”
Jeremiah 51:2 winnow To separate grain from the hulls around it. Farmers threw the grain with the hulls into the air. The wind blew the hulls away and left the good grain.