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13 You live beside a great river,
    and you are rich in treasures.
But your time has come;
    your cruelty has caught up with you.[a]
14 The Lord of heavenly forces has sworn by his own name:
    I’m going to fill your cities[b]
        with soldiers like a swarm of locusts;
    they will celebrate their victory over you.

15 God made the earth by his might,
    shaped the world by his wisdom,
        and crafted the skies by his knowledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:13 Heb uncertain
  2. Jeremiah 51:14 Heb lacks cities.

13 You who live by many waters(A)
    and are rich in treasures,(B)
your end has come,
    the time for you to be destroyed.(C)
14 The Lord Almighty has sworn by himself:(D)
    I will surely fill you with troops, as with a swarm of locusts,(E)
    and they will shout(F) in triumph over you.

15 “He made the earth by his power;
    he founded the world by his wisdom(G)
    and stretched(H) out the heavens by his understanding.(I)

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