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15 When I have turned the land of Egypt
    into a wasteland,
and when the land is stripped
    of everything that was in it,
and when I strike down all its inhabitants,
    then they shall know that I am the Lord.
16 This is a lamentation and it will be chanted;
    the daughters of the nations[a] will chant it.
They shall raise the lamentation
    over Egypt and all its hordes,
    says the Lord God.

17 Lamentation over Egypt. On the fifteenth day of the first month in the twelfth year, this word of the Lord came to me:

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 32:16 Daughters of the nations: the pagan peoples.