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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]
18 As I live,”[e] declares[f] the king,
    Yahweh of hosts is his name,
“one will come like Tabor among the mountains
    and like Carmel by the sea.

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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”
  5. Jeremiah 46:18 Literally “Life I”
  6. Jeremiah 46:18 Literally “a declaration of”