Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy its sinners out of it.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Desolate. This was effected in the course of many centuries. (Calmet)
The building of Seleucia caused Babylon to be deserted. (Pliny, vi. 27.)
Hence we know not at present where it was situated.