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19 Prepare your baggage to go into exile,
    you inhabitants of Egypt.
Memphis will become a desert waste,
    a desolate, uninhabited ruin.
20 Egypt is a beautiful heifer,[a]
    but a gadfly from the north
    is preparing to move against her.
21 Even the mercenaries in her midst
    are like fatted calves,
but they have turned and fled together
    rather than stand their ground.
For the day of disaster has overtaken them,
    the time of their punishment.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:20 Heifer: an allusion to the worship of Hathor, the cow-headed goddess.