15 Why are thy valiant men put back? they could not stand, because the Lord did drive them.

16 He made many to fall, and one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, let us go again to our [a]own people, and to the land of our nativity from the sword of the violent.

17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt, and of a great multitude, [b]hath passed the time appointed.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:16 As they that should repent that they helped the Egyptians.
  2. Jeremiah 46:17 He derideth them which shall impute their overthrow to lack of counsel and policy, or to fortune, and not observing of time: not considering that it is God’s just judgment.

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