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19 Get what you need for deportation,
    you inhabitants of Egypt.[a]
Memphis will be reduced to a wasteland,
    a ruin with no one left.
20 Egypt is a beautiful, yes, beautiful heifer,
    but a horsefly from the north
        is coming to bite her.[b]
21 Even her mercenaries
    are like well-fed calves;
        they too will retreat and run for cover;
        they won’t survive.
The day of disaster has come to haunt them,
    the time of their punishment.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:19 Or inhabitant, Daughter Egypt
  2. Jeremiah 46:20 Heb uncertain

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