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15     Shout your battle cries on every side!
        She has already given up.
    Her towers have fallen, and her walls have crumbled.
        Since this is My vengeance, the justice of the Eternal,
    Do not hold back—take vengeance on her.
        Do to her what she has done to others.
16     Uproot from Babylon those who plant crops
        and those who harvest with the sickle.
    When they see the flash from the enemy’s sword,
        everyone will run away; everyone will go back to his own land.

17 Israel is like a frightened flock scattered by the lions who hunt them. The first to attack and devour them was the king of Assyria, and the last to chew on their remains was Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.

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