21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD. 22 “The noise of battle is in the land— the noise of great destruction. 23 How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:21–23
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