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 Later, a similar darkness in the heavens signified a disaster for ancient Babylon. Of this, God prophet was inspired to write: "The day of Jehovah itself is coming, cruel both with fury and with burning anger, in order to make the land an object of astonishment, and that it may annihilate the land's sinners out of it.  For the very stars of the heavens  and their constellations of Kesil will not flash forth their light; the sun will actually grow dark at its going forth, and the moon itself will not cause its light to shine.  And I shall certainly bring home its own badness upon the productive land, and their own error upon the wicked themselves." ( Isaiah 13:9-11) This prophecy was fulfilled in 539 B.C.E.  when Babylon fell to the Medes and the Persians.  It well describes the blackness, the hopelessness, the lack of any comforting light for Babylon as she fell forever from her position from world power.

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