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16 Don’t allow anyone in Babylon to plant or harvest.
    Everyone will turn to his own people and flee to his own homeland
    because of the enemies’ swords.

17 “The people of Israel are like scattered sheep that lions have chased.
    The first to devour them was the king of Assyria.
    The last to gnaw at their bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

18 “This is what Yahweh Tsebaoth, the Elohim of Israel, says:

I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land
    as I punished the king of Assyria.

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