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37 Babylon will become a pile of ruins,
    a home for wild dogs.
People will be shocked by what happened there.
    No one will live there anymore.
38 Babylon’s people roar like young lions;
    they growl like baby lions.
39 While they are stirred up,
    I will give a feast for them
    and make them drunk.
They will shout and laugh.
    And they will sleep forever and never wake up!” says the Lord.

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37 Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
    a haunt(A) of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,(B)
    a place where no one lives.(C)
38 Her people all roar like young lions,(D)
    they growl like lion cubs.
39 But while they are aroused,
    I will set out a feast for them
    and make them drunk,(E)
so that they shout with laughter—
    then sleep forever(F) and not awake,”
declares the Lord.(G)

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