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34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
    has devoured me and sucked me dry;
he has made me an empty vessel;
    he has swallowed me like the sea monster;
he has filled his belly with my delicacies;
    he has rinsed me.
35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon,”
    the inhabitants[a] of Zion will say;
and “My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
    Jerusalem will say.

36 Therefore[b] thus says Yahweh,

“Look, I am going to contend your case,
    and I will avenge your vengeance,
and I will cause her sea to dry up,
    and I will cause her fountain to dry up.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:35 Hebrew “inhabitant”
  2. Jeremiah 51:36 Literally “To thus”