Also I will make it a possession of a shrinking animal and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of ruin, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts.
So says Jehovah of Hosts, Baring, the broad walls of Babylon shall be laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. And the peoples shall labor as for vanity, and a people as for fire; and they shall be weary.
And you shall say, In this way Babylon shall sink and shall not rise from the evil that I am bringing on it, and they shall be weary. So far are the words of Jeremiah.
And I will make you like a shining rock. You shall be a spreading place for nets, you shall not be built any more. For I, Jehovah, have spoken, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the ruined places; thus says Jehovah of Hosts: They shall build, but I will tear down; And they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is angrily indignant until forever.
And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia, write: These things says the Holy One, the True One, the One having “the key of David”, “the One opening, and no one shuts; and shuts, and no one opens”: Isa. 22:22
This day Jehovah shall shut you up into my hand, and I shall strike you, and take off your head from you and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the heavens and to the living things of the earth this day. And all the earth shall know that there is a God for Israel.
And Abishai said to David, God has shut up your enemy into your hand today. And now please let me strike him with a spear, even to the earth one time, and I will not repeat it to him.