56 A destroyer will come against Babylon;
    her warriors will be captured,
    and their bows will be broken.
For the Lord is a God of retribution;
    he will repay in full.
57 I will make her officials and wise men drunk,
    her governors, officers and warriors as well;
they will sleep for ever and not awake,’
    declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.

58 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

‘Babylon’s thick wall will be levelled
    and her high gates set on fire;
the peoples exhaust themselves for nothing,
    the nations’ labour is only fuel for the flames.’

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