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6 “Do not let the swift flee away, And they said, ‘Arise!
Nor the mighty man escape; Let us go back to our own people
They will stumble and fall And to the land of our nativity
Toward the north, by the River From the oppressing sword.’
Euphrates. 17 They cried there,
‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise.
7 “Who is this coming up like a flood,
Whose waters move like the rivers? He has passed by the appointed time!’
Egypt rises up like a flood, “As I live,” says the King,
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And its waters move like the rivers; Whose name is the LORD of hosts,
And he says, ‘I will go up and cover the “Surely as Tabor is among the
earth, mountains
I will destroy the city and its And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall
inhabitants.’ come.
9 Come up, O horses, and rage, 19 O you daughter dwelling in Egypt,
O chariots! Prepare yourself to go into captivity!
And let the mighty men come forth: For Noph shall be waste and desolate,
The Ethiopians and the Libyans who without inhabitant.
handle the shield, 20
And the Lydians who handle and bend “Egypt is a very pretty heifer,
But destruction comes, it comes from
the bow.
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of
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21 Also her mercenaries are in her midst
hosts,
like fat bulls,
A day of vengeance, For they also are turned back,
That He may avenge Himself on His They have fled away together.
adversaries.
The sword shall devour; They did not stand,
For the day of their calamity had come
It shall be satiated and made drunk upon them,
with their blood; The time of their punishment.
For the Lord GOD of hosts has a 22 Her noise shall go like a serpent,
sacrifice For they shall march with an army
In the north country by the River And come against her with axes,
Euphrates.
Like those who chop wood.
“Go up to Gilead and take balm, 23 “They shall cut down her forest,” says
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O virgin, the daughter of Egypt; the LORD,
In vain you will use many medicines; “Though it cannot be searched,
You shall not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of your shame, Because they are innumerable,
And more numerous than
And your cry has filled the land; grasshoppers.
For the mighty man has stumbled 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be
against the mighty; ashamed;
They both have fallen together.” She shall be delivered into
13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the hand
the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Of the people of the north.”
Babylon would come and strike the land of 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says:
Egypt. “Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of
14 “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in No, and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods
Migdol; and their kings—Pharaoh and those who trust
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Proclaim in Noph and in Tahpanhes; in him. And I will deliver them into the hand
Say, ‘Stand fast and prepare yourselves, of those who seek their lives, into the hand of
For the sword devours all around you.’ Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand
15 Why are your valiant men swept away? of his servants. Afterward it shall be inhabited
They did not stand as in the days of old,” says the LORD.
Because the LORD drove them away. 27 “But do not fear, O My servant Jacob,
He made many fall; And do not be dismayed, O Israel!
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Yes, one fell upon another. For behold, I will save you from afar,

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