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neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds
make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and
their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell
there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands
shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces.”
“I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water:
and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of
hosts.”
Jeremiah 51:58
;
Isaiah 13:11, 19-22
;
14:23
.
To the last ruler of Babylon, as in type to its first, had come the
sentence of the divine Watcher: “O king, ... to thee it is spoken; The
kingdom is departed from thee.”
Daniel 4:31
.
“Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of
Babylon,
Sit on the ground: there is no throne....
Sit thou silent,
And get thee into darkness, O daughter of the
Chaldeans:
For thou shalt no more be called, The lady of king-
doms.
“I was wroth with My people,
I have polluted Mine inheritance, and given
them into
thine hand:
Thou didst show them no mercy; ...
“And thou saidst, I shall be a lady forever:
So that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart,
Neither didst remember the latter end of it.
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“Therefore hear now this,
Thou that art given to pleasures
That dwellest carelessly,
That sayest in thine heart,
I am, and none else beside me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
Neither shall I know the loss of children: ...