23 Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a foreign resident.”

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23 Now swear(A) to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants.(B) Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”(C)

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22 “I will rise up against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

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22 “I will rise up(A) against them,”
    declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will wipe out Babylon’s name(B) and survivors,
    her offspring and descendants,(C)
declares the Lord.

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ת Tav

22 You summoned my attackers[a] on every side,(A)
as if for an appointed festival day;
on the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured[b] and reared.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:22 Or terrors
  2. Lamentations 2:22 Or I bore healthy; Hb obscure

22 “As you summon to a feast day,
    so you summoned against me terrors(A) on every side.
In the day of the Lord’s anger
    no one escaped(B) or survived;
those I cared for and reared(C)
    my enemy has destroyed.”

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