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22 Egypt is like a hissing snake that is trying to escape.
    The ·enemy [L army] comes closer and closer.
They come against it [C Egypt] with axes
    like men who cut down trees.
23 They will ·chop [cut] down her forest [C Egypt’s army]
    ·as if it were a great forest [or for they cannot be numbered; C could refer either to the Babylonians or the Egyptians],” says the Lord.
“There are more [C enemy soldiers] than locusts;
    there are too many to count.
24 The people of Egypt will be ·ashamed [humiliated].
    They will be handed over to the enemy from the north [C Babylon].”

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