Ezekiel 32:15-17

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¹⁵When I make the land of Egypt desolate
    and when the land is stripped of all that fills it,
when I strike down all who live in it,
    then they shall know that I am the Lord.
¹⁶This is a lamentation; it shall be chanted.
    The women of the nations shall chant it.
Over Egypt and all its hordes they shall chant it,
    says the Lord God.

Dirge over Egypt

¹⁷In the twelfth year, in the first month,^[a] on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

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Ezekiel 32:17 Gk: Heb lacks in the first month

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