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A sword `is' on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it `is' a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves.

מֵימֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

As overthrown by God with Sodom, And with Gomorrah, and with its neighbours, An affirmation of Jehovah, none doth dwell there, Nor sojourn in her doth a son of man.

שְׁכֵנֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land, For they have been against it, Round about -- in the day of evil.

אַרְצָ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”

Let not the treader tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have ye pity on her young men, Devote ye to destruction all her host.

בַּ֣חֻרֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “its”צְבָאָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “its”

And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.

בְּחוּצוֹתֶֽיהָ׃ (הָ) ha “its”

Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, And deliver ye each his soul, Be not cut off in its iniquity, For a time of vengeance it `is' to Jehovah, Recompence He is rendering to her.

בַּעֲוֹנָ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”

A golden cup `is' Babylon in the hand of Jehovah, Making drunk all the earth, Of its wine drunk have nations, Therefore boast themselves do nations.

מִיֵּינָהּ֙ (הּ֙) h “its”

Suddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it may be healed.

לְמַכְאוֹבָ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

We healed Babylon, and she was not healed, Forsake her, and we go, each to his land, For come unto the heavens hath its judgment, And it hath been lifted up unto the clouds.

מִשְׁפָּטָ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”

Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its dominion.

פַּחוֹתֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”סְגָנֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

Ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Failed hath their might, they have become woman, They have burnt her tabernacles, Broken have been her bars.

מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”בְרִיחֶֽיהָ׃ (הָ) ha “its”

Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.

יַמָּ֔הּ (הּ) h “its”מְקוֹרָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “its”

Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land -- none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.

עָרֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”

Go forth from its midst, O My people, And deliver ye, each his soul, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah,

מִתּוֹכָהּ֙ (הּ֙) h “it”

Therefore, lo, days are coming, And I have seen after the graven images of Babylon. And all its land is ashamed, And all its pierced ones do fall in its midst.

אַרְצָ֖הּ (הּ) h “its”חֲלָלֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “its”בְתוֹכָֽהּ׃ (הּ) h “it”

Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have seen after its graven images, And in all its land groan doth the wounded.

פְּסִילֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “its”אַרְצָ֖הּ (הּ) h “its”

Because Babylon goeth up to the heavens, And because it fenceth the high place of its strength, From Me come into it do spoilers, An affirmation of Jehovah.

עֻזָּ֑הּ (הּ) h “its”

For come in against it -- against Babylon -- hath a spoiler, And captured have been its mighty ones, Broken have been their bows, For the God of recompences -- Jehovah -- doth certainly repay.

גִּבּוֹרֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not -- an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts `is' His name.

שָׂרֶ֨יהָ (הָ) ha “its”וַחֲכָמֶ֜יהָ (הָ) ha “its”פַּחוֹתֶ֤יהָ (הָ) ha “its”וּסְגָנֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “its”וְגִבּוֹרֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, the wall of Babylon -- The broad one -- is utterly made bare, And her high gates with fire are burnt, And peoples labour in vain, And nations in fire, and have been weary!

וּשְׁעָרֶ֥יהָ (הָ) ha “its”

She weepeth sore in the night, And her tear `is' on her cheeks, There is no comforter for her out of all her lovers, All her friends dealt treacherously by her, They have been to her for enemies.

וְדִמְעָתָהּ֙ (הּ֙) h “her”לֶֽחֱיָ֔הּ (הּ) h “her”רֵעֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “her”

The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

שְׁעָרֶ֙יהָ֙ (הָ֙) ha “her”כֹּהֲנֶ֖יהָ (הָ) ha “her”בְּתוּלֹתֶ֥יהָ (הָ) ha “her”

Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have been at ease, For Jehovah hath afflicted her, For the abundance of her transgressions, Her infants have gone captive before the adversary.

צָרֶ֤יהָ (הָ) ha “her”אֹיְבֶ֣יהָ (הָ) ha “her”פְּשָׁעֶ֑יהָ (הָ) ha “her”עוֹלָלֶ֛יהָ (הָ) ha “her”

And go out from the daughter of Zion doth all her honour, Her princes have been as harts -- They have not found pasture, And they go powerless before a pursuer.

הֲדָרָ֑הּ (הּ) h “her”שָׂרֶ֗יהָ (הָ) ha “her”

Remembered hath Jerusalem `In' the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, And she hath no helper; Seen her have adversaries, They have laughed at her cessation.

עָנְיָהּ֙ (הּ֙) h “her”וּמְרוּדֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “her”מַחֲמֻדֶ֔יהָ (הָ) ha “her”עַמָּ֣הּ (הּ) h “her”מִשְׁבַּתֶּֽהָ׃ (הָ) ha “her”