The Hammer of the Earth Is Broken

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Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.

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“The noise of battle is in the land— the noise of great destruction.

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How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

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I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

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The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

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Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.

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Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come— the time of their punishment.

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Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

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Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

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Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.

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“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

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The arrogant one will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities to consume all those around him.”

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