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13 Babylon, you live beside many rivers and are rich with treasures,
    but your end has come.
        The thread of your life has been cut off.
14 Yahweh Tsebaoth has taken an oath on himself:
    “I will certainly fill you with many enemy armies.
        They will swarm like locusts.
            People will shout their victory over you.”

15 Yahweh made the earth by his power.
    He set up the world by his wisdom.
    He stretched out heaven by his understanding.

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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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