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13 You who live by the rivers of Babylon,
    your end has come.
You who are rich in treasures,
    it is time for you to be destroyed.
14 I am the Lord who rules over all.
    I have made a promise in my own name.
I have said, ‘I will certainly fill your land with soldiers.
    They will be as many as a huge number of locusts.
They will win the battle over you.
    They will shout for joy.’

15 “I used my power to make the earth.
    I used my wisdom to set the world in place.
    I used my understanding to spread out the heavens.

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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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