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Are you better than Thebes a that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, water her wall?
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Ethiopia b was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her c helpers.
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Yet she became an exile, she went into captivity; even her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; lots were cast for her nobles, all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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