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And look, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen!" Then he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground."
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Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from the Lord of hosts, The God of Israel, I have declared to you.
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The burden against Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?"
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The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; Return! Come back!"
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The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites.
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O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Bring water to him who is thirsty; With their bread they met him who fled.
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For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.
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For thus the Lord has said to me: "Within a year, according to the year of a hired man, all the glory of Kedar will fail;
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and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it."