KJV ORIGINAL
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
This is what the Lord says: Babylon's massive walls are going to be completely destroyed, and those towering gates will go up in flames. All the work people put into building this empire? Totally wasted. Everyone who tries to save it will just exhaust themselves for nothing.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Even the most powerful empires eventually crumble — all that effort to build something that won't last.
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