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Egypt is like a splendid cow, attacked by a stinging fly from the north.
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Even her hired soldiers are helpless as calves. They did not stand and fight; all of them turned and ran. The day of their doom had arrived, the time of their destruction.
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Egypt runs away, hissing like a snake, as the enemy's army approaches. They attack her with axes, like people cutting down trees
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and destroying a thick forest. Their soldiers are too many to count; they outnumber the locusts.
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The people of Egypt are put to shame; they are conquered by the people of the north. I, the Lord, have spoken."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.