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11 Go up to Gilead and take balm,
    O virgin of the daughter of Egypt.
In vain[a] you make use of many medicines;
    there is no healing for you.
12 The nations have heard your shame,
    and your cry of lament fills the earth.
For warrior has stumbled against warrior,
    together they have fallen, the two of them.

13 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt:

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:11 Literally “To the vanity”