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4 And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble.
5 They set the tables; they spread the carpets; they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers! Oil the shields!”
6The Fall of BabylonFor this is what the LORD told me: “Go post a lookout. Have him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots, each man with a pair of horses, riders on donkeys or riders on camels, let him pay attention, full attention.”
8 Then the lookout shouted: “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and I am stationed at my post throughout the night.
9 Look! Here come riders, each man with a pair of horses!” They’re shouting out the answer: “Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and they have shattered all the images of her gods on the ground!
10 O my downtrodden people, my wall! I’ll tell you what I have heard from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel.”
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