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Suddenly Babylon is fallen![a]
Shattered! Howl over her!
Bring balm for her wound.
Perhaps she may be healed?
We would have healed Babylon,
but she cannot be healed.
Abandon her!
Let’s go, each one to his own country,
for her judgment has reached up to the heavens[b]
and has risen beyond the skies.
10 Adonai has brought forth our vindication!
Come, let us declare in Zion
the work of Adonai Eloheinu!

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Babylon will suddenly fall(A) and be broken.
    Wail over her!
Get balm(B) for her pain;
    perhaps she can be healed.

“‘We would have healed Babylon,
    but she cannot be healed;
let us leave(C) her and each go to our own land,
    for her judgment(D) reaches to the skies,
    it rises as high as the heavens.’

10 “‘The Lord has vindicated(E) us;
    come, let us tell in Zion
    what the Lord our God has done.’(F)

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