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19 Pack your bags for exile,
    sheltered daughter Egypt!
For Memphis shall become a waste,
    a ruin, without inhabitant.

20 A beautiful heifer is Egypt—
    a gadfly from the north lights upon her.
21 Even her mercenaries in her midst
    are like fatted calves;
they too have turned and fled together,
    they did not stand;
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
    the time of their punishment.

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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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