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sending ambassadors by the Nile
    in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
    to a nation tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
    a nation mighty[a] and conquering,
    whose land the rivers divide.(A)

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  1. 18.2 Meaning of Heb uncertain

At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from[a] a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.(A)

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  1. 18.7 Q ms Gk Vg: MT of

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him up to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.(A) The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes; also the king of Babylon slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.(B) He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in fetters to take him to Babylon.(C) The Chaldeans burned with fire the king’s house and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.(D) Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard exiled to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the people who remained.(E)

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