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36 This is what Yahweh says:

    I am going to take up your cause and get revenge for you.
        I will dry up Babylon’s sea and make its springs dry.
37 Babylon will become piles of rubble.
    It will become a dwelling place for jackals,
        something horrible, and an object of contempt,
            where no one lives.
38 Its people are like roaring lions and growling lion cubs.

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36 Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“See, I will defend your cause(A)
    and avenge(B) you;
I will dry up(C) her sea
    and make her springs dry.
37 Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
    a haunt(D) of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,(E)
    a place where no one lives.(F)
38 Her people all roar like young lions,(G)
    they growl like lion cubs.

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