The Destruction of the Destroying Mountain

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“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.

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No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.

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“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her— Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

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Prepare the nations for battle against her— the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

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The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

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The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

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One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.

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The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”

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For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”

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