Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 28:58

Source: Septuagint

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58Thus saith the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad, but it shall be completely broken down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall not labor in vain, nor the nations fail in their rule.

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56For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless: for God recompenses them.

57The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise men and her captains completely drunk, saith the King, the Lord Almighty is his name.

— Jeremiah 28:58 —

59The word which the Lord commanded the prophet Jeremiah to say to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went from Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was over the bounties.

60And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evils which should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

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