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I'll throw you and the fish into the desert, and your body will fall on the hard ground. You will be left unburied,[a] and wild animals and birds will eat your flesh. (A) Then everyone in Egypt will know that I am the Lord.

You and your nation refused to help the people of Israel and were nothing more than a broken stick. When they reached out to you for support, you broke in half, cutting their arms and making them fall.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 29.5 You will be left unburied: A proper burial in a royal tomb was extremely important to Egyptian kings, because they often thought of themselves as gods.
  2. 29.7 making them fall: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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