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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man,prophesy and say, Thus saith the LordGOD;Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
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For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudyday; it shall be the time of the heathen.
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And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain[a] shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
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Ethiopia, and Libya,[b] and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
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Thus saith the LORD; They also that upholdEgypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword,saith the LordGOD.
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And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.