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19 Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,
    the proud beauty of the Chaldeans,
        will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when Elohim destroyed them.
20 It will never be inhabited again,
    and no one will live in it for generations.
        Arabs won’t pitch their tents there.
        Shepherds won’t let their flocks rest there.
21 Desert animals will lie down there.
    Their homes will be full of owls.
        Ostriches will live there,
            and wild goats will skip about.

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19 Babylon,(A) the jewel of kingdoms,(B)
    the pride and glory(C) of the Babylonians,[a]
will be overthrown(D) by God
    like Sodom and Gomorrah.(E)
20 She will never be inhabited(F)
    or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads(G) will pitch their tents,
    there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
21 But desert creatures(H) will lie there,
    jackals(I) will fill her houses;
there the owls(J) will dwell,
    and there the wild goats(K) will leap about.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:19 Or Chaldeans