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29 “‘Your visions are useless.
    Your magic will not help you.
    It is only a bunch of lies.
The sword is now at the throats of evil men.
    They will soon be only dead bodies.
Their time has come.
    The time has come for their evil to end.

Prophecy Against Babylon

30 “‘Put the sword back in its sheath. Babylon, I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land where you were born. 31 I will pour out my anger against you. My anger will burn you like a hot wind. I will hand you over to cruel men.[a] Those men are skilled at killing people.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:31 cruel men This is a wordplay. The Hebrew word is like the word meaning “to burn.”

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