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21 Attack the land of Merathaim[a]
    and the inhabitants of Pekod.
Put them to the sword and destroy them;
    do all I have commanded you, says the Lord.
22 The noise of battle amid great destruction
    is heard throughout the land.
23 See how the hammer of the whole world
    has been broken and shattered,
how Babylon has become
    an object of horror among the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:21 Merathaim and Pekod: regions of Babylonia, the Hebrew names of which (“twofold rebellion” and “visit, punish”) lend themselves to a play on words.