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When they reached out to you for support,
    you tore their hands
        and dislocated all of their shoulders.
When they tried to lean on you,
    they couldn’t control their own bowels.’[a]

“Therefore this is what the Lord God says: ‘Look out! I’m bringing violent death[b] in your direction! I’m going to kill every person and animal, and the land of Egypt will be turned into a desolate ruin. Then you will know that I am the Lord. Because Egypt said, “The Nile is mine. I made it!”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 29:7 Lit. all of their loins became unstable; so LXX; i.e. an involuntary physiological response from terror in the aftermath of their military defeat
  2. Ezekiel 29:8 Lit. bringing a sword