The Destruction of the Destroying Mountain

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"I am against you, destructive mountain, destroying all the earth," says ADONAI. "I will stretch out my hand against you, to send you tumbling down from the crags and make you a burned-out mountain.

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No one will make cornerstones or foundation-stones from you again; but you will be desolate forever," says ADONAI.

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Raise up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the nations. Prepare the nations for war against her. Summon kingdoms against her - Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz. Appoint an officer against her; bring up horses like bristling grasshoppers.

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Prepare the nations against her, the kings of the Medes, his governors and deputies, and all the land he controls.

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The earth quakes and writhes, as ADONAI's designs against Bavel are fulfilled, to make the land of Bavel a ruin, with no one living there.

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Bavel's warriors have given up fighting; they remain in their fortresses; their courage has failed; they are now like women. Her homes are on fire, her gate-bars broken.

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One runner runs to meet another, messenger to meet messenger, to report to the king of Bavel that every part of his city is taken,

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the fords have been occupied, and the swamp thickets set on fire, while the warriors are seized with panic.

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For here is what ADONAI-Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says: "The daughter of Bavel is like a threshing-floor at treading-time. Just a little while longer, and the time for harvesting her will come."

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