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¹ And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² And fouling their rivers. ³ And they will draw you up in My net. ⁴ And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth. ⁵ And fill the valleys with your carcass. ⁶ And the riverbeds will be full of you. ⁷ And the moon shall not give her light. ⁸ Says the Lord God. ⁹ ‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. ¹⁰ Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall. ¹¹ ‘For thus says the Lord God: “The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. ¹² And all its multitude shall be destroyed. ¹³ Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy them. ¹⁴ Says the Lord God. ¹⁵ Then they shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁶ Says the Lord God.’ ” ¹⁷ It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ¹⁸ With those who go down to the Pit: ¹⁹ Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.’ ²⁰ Drawing her and all her multitudes. ²¹ They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’ ²² All of them slain, fallen by the sword. ²³ Who caused terror in the land of the living. ²⁴ Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit. ²⁵ It was put in the midst of the slain. ²⁶ Though they caused their terror in the land of the living. ²⁷ Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. ²⁸ And lie with those slain by the sword. ²⁹ And with those who go down to the Pit. ³⁰ And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit. ³¹ Says the Lord God. ³² Says the Lord God.