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19 Make your baggage ready for (A)exile,
O inhabitant of the (B)daughter of Egypt,
For (C)Memphis will become a desolation;
It will even be turned into ruin and without inhabitants.
20 Egypt is a pretty (D)heifer,
But a [a]horsefly is coming (E)from the north—it is coming!
21 Also her (F)mercenaries in her midst
Are like [b]fattened (G)calves,
For even they have turned back and have fled away together;
They did not stand their ground.
For the day of their disaster has come upon them,
The time of their (H)punishment.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:20 Or possibly mosquito
  2. Jeremiah 46:21 Lit of the stall