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15 When 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.(A)
16 This 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.(B)

Dirge over Egypt

17 In 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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Footnotes

  1. 32.17 Gk: Heb lacks in the first month