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The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.
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Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured round about you.
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Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn`t stand, because Yahweh did drive them.
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He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.
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They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.
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As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
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You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
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Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
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Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn`t stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.
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The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
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They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can`t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
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The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
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Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:
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and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.