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18 I, the Lord Almighty, am king.
    I am the living God.
As Mount Tabor towers above the mountains
    and Mount Carmel stands high above the sea,
so will be the strength of the one who attacks you.
19 Get ready to be taken prisoner,
    you people of Egypt!
Memphis will be made a desert,
    a ruin where no one lives.
20 Egypt is like a splendid cow,
    attacked by a stinging fly from the north.

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18 “As surely as I live,” declares the King,(A)
    whose name is the Lord Almighty,
“one will come who is like Tabor(B) among the mountains,
    like Carmel(C) by the sea.
19 Pack your belongings for exile,(D)
    you who live in Egypt,
for Memphis(E) will be laid waste(F)
    and lie in ruins without inhabitant.

20 “Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
    but a gadfly is coming
    against her from the north.(G)

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