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33 For thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel:

The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor,
it is time to thresh her;
yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.

34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
    has devoured me and crushed me;
    he has made me an empty vessel.
He has swallowed me up like a dragon;
    he has filled his belly with my delicacies,
    he has cast me out.
35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”
    the inhabitant of Zion will say;
and, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
    Jerusalem will say.

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