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An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb.

Through a land of trouble and distress,
    of lioness and roaring[a] lion,
    of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys
    and their treasures on the humps of camels
    to a people that cannot profit them.(A)
For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty;
    therefore I have called her,
    “Rahab who sits still.”[b](B)

A Rebellious People

Go now, write it before them on a tablet,
    and inscribe it on a scroll,
so that it may be for the time to come
    as a witness forever.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 30.6 Cn: Heb from them
  2. 30.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain