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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
    at the time it is being trodden.
Yet it will only be a short while
    before the time of her harvest will come.
34 “King Nebuchadnezzar has devoured us;
    he has routed us
    and set us aside like an empty dish.
Like a serpent he has swallowed us,
    filled his stomach with our delicacies,
    and then spewed us out.
35 May our torn flesh be avenged on Babylon,”
    the inhabitants of Zion say.
“May my blood be avenged
    on the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
    Jerusalem says.

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