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“Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain,” says the LORD, “which destroys all the earth. I will stretch out my hand on you, roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burned mountain.
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Verse 25. Mountain. So Babylon is styled in derision. See Calmet. 21:13. Isaiah 1:10 and 20:6 and 22:1. The city stood on a plain. Some think that its palace and walls are designated.—Burnt; unfruitful. This happened long after Cyrus, though it then ceased to be the capital, and became only a shadow of its former greatness.
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