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15 ‘When I turn the land of Egypt into a desolation,
    and the land is emptied of everything that used to fill it,
when I strike everyone who lives there,
    they will learn that I am the Lord.’

16 “This has been a lamentation. They will chant it, and the citizens[a] of the nations will chant it, too. They’ll chant it about Egypt and about all of its hordes.”

Babylon’s Invasion of Egypt

17 On the fifteenth day of the first[b] month of the twelfth year of our captivity,[c] a message from the Lord came to me, and this is what it said:

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 32:16 Lit. daughters
  2. Ezekiel 32:17 The Heb. lacks the first
  3. Ezekiel 32:17 The Heb. lacks of our captivity