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33 The Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says this:

Babylon is like a threshing floor
that is ready for people to stamp on wheat.
The harvest time will soon come!
Then the enemy will cut down Babylon,
and they will stamp all over it!’

34 ‘King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has destroyed us with his army.
He has made us weak and confused.
He has eaten us like a hungry monster.
He has filled himself with all our good things.
Then he spat us out of his mouth.’

35 Zion's people then say to the Lord,

‘Please punish the people of Babylonia,
because they did cruel things to us.’

Jerusalem's people say,

‘Pay back the people of Babylonia,
because they killed our relatives.’

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