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Egypt’s mercenaries have become like fattened calves. They, too, will turn and run, for it is a day of great disaster for Egypt, a time of great punishment.
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Egypt flees, silent as a serpent gliding away. The invading army marches in; they come against her with axes like woodsmen.
23
They will cut down her people like trees,” says the LORD, “for they are more numerous than locusts.
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Egypt will be humiliated; she will be handed over to people from the north.”
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The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish Amon, the god of Thebes, and all the other gods of Egypt. I will punish its rulers and Pharaoh, too, and all who trust in him.