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35 May my torn flesh be avenged on Babylon,’
    the inhabitants of Zion shall say.
‘May my blood be avenged on the inhabitants of Chaldea,’
    Jerusalem shall say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
I am going to defend your cause
    and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up her sea
    and make her fountain dry;
37 and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins,
    a den of jackals,
an object of horror and of hissing,
    without inhabitant.

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35 May the violence(A) done to our flesh[a] be on Babylon,”
    say the inhabitants of Zion.
“May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,”
    says Jerusalem.(B)

36 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“See, I will defend your cause(C)
    and avenge(D) you;
I will dry up(E) her sea
    and make her springs dry.
37 Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
    a haunt(F) of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,(G)
    a place where no one lives.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:35 Or done to us and to our children