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O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant (46:19) Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north (46:20) Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation (46:21) The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood (46:22) They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable (46:23) The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north (46:24) The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him: (46:25) And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord (46:26) But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid (46:27) Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished
(46:28)
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