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Cush and Put, that handle the shield,

And the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.

 

¹⁰For the Lord God of hosts shall have on that day

A day of vengeance, that He may avenge Him of His adversaries;

And the sword shall devour and be satiate,

And shall be made drunk with their blood;

For the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice

In the north country by the river Euphrates.

¹¹Go up into Gilead, and take balm,

O virgin daughter of Egypt;

In vain dost thou use many medicines;

There is no cure for thee.

¹²The nations have heard of thy shame,

And the earth is full of thy cry;

For the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,

They are fallen both of them together.

¹³The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

¹⁴Declare ye in Egypt, and announce in Migdol,

And announce in Noph and in Tahpanhes;

Say ye: 'Stand forth, and prepare thee,

For the sword hath devoured round about thee.'

¹⁵Why is thy strong one overthrown?

He stood not, because the Lord did thrust him down.

¹⁶He made many to stumble;

Yea, they fell one upon another,

And said: 'Arise, and let us return to our own people,

And to the land of our birth,

From the oppressing sword.'

¹⁷They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;

He hath let the appointed time pass by.'

¹⁸As I live, saith the King,

Whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Surely like Tabor among the mountains,

And like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

¹⁹O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt,

Furnish thyself to go into captivity;

For Noph shall become a desolation,

And shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.

 

²⁰Egypt is a very fair heifer;

But the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.

²¹Also her mercenaries in the midst of her

Are like calves of the stall,

For they also are turned back, they are fled away together,

They did not stand;

For the day of their calamity is come upon them,

The time of their visitation.

²²The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's;

For they march with an army,

And come against her with axes,

As hewers of wood.

²³They cut down her forest, saith the Lord,

Though it cannot be searched;

Because they are more than the locusts,

And are innumerable.

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