Isaiah 14:4-6
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4 that you will (A)take up this [a]taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,
“How (B)the taskmaster has ceased,
And how [b]fury has ceased!
5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers
6 (C)Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,
Which had dominion over the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 14:4 Or proverb
- Isaiah 14:4 Amended from the meaningless medhebah to marhebah
Jeremiah 25:12
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Punishment Against Babylon
12 ‘Then it will be (A)when seventy years are fulfilled, that I will (B)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for their iniquity, even the land of the Chaldeans; and (C)I will make it an everlasting desolation.
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