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19 Pack your bags, inhabitants of Egypt,
    because you will be taken away as captives.
        Memphis will become a dreary wasteland,
            a pile of rubble where no one lives.

20 “Egypt is like a beautiful cow,
    but a horsefly from the north will attack it.
21 Egypt’s hired soldiers are like fattened calves.
    They will turn and run away together.
    They won’t stand their ground.
        The day of destruction is coming.
            At that time they will be punished.

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19 Pack your belongings for exile,(A)
    you who live in Egypt,
for Memphis(B) will be laid waste(C)
    and lie in ruins without inhabitant.

20 “Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
    but a gadfly is coming
    against her from the north.(D)
21 The mercenaries(E) in her ranks
    are like fattened calves.(F)
They too will turn and flee(G) together,
    they will not stand their ground,
for the day(H) of disaster is coming upon them,
    the time(I) for them to be punished.

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