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15 Why are your bulls defeated?
    He did not stand because Yahweh thrust him down.
16 He multiplied the ones[a] stumbling.
    Furthermore, each one fell to his neighbor,
and said, ‘Stand up, and let us return to our people
    and to the land of our birth,
    because of[b] the presence[c] of the sword of the oppressor.’
17 They will call there,
‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt is but a roar,
    he missed the opportunity.’[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:16 Hebrew “one”
  2. Jeremiah 46:16 Literally “from”
  3. Jeremiah 46:16 Literally “face”
  4. Jeremiah 46:17 Literally “he has allowed to pass over the appointed time”