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13 Babylon, you live near much water.
    You are rich with treasures, but your end as a nation has come.
    It is time for you to be destroyed.
14 The Lord All-Powerful used his name to make this promise:
“Babylon, I will fill you with so many enemy soldiers they will be like a cloud of locusts.
    They will win their war against you.
    They will stand over you shouting their victory cry.”

15 God used his great power and made the earth.
    He used his wisdom to build the world
    and his understanding to stretch out the skies.

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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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