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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 51: 33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
Jeremiah 51: 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath set me down as an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath washed me clean.
Jeremiah 51: 35 'The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon', shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and: 'My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea', shall Jerusalem say.
Jeremiah 51: 36 Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
Jeremiah 51: 37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51: 38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.
Jeremiah 51: 39 With their poison I will prepare their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may be convulsed, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 51: 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Jeremiah 51: 41 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
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