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21     The mercenaries in her army are like fattened calves:
        they will turn and run, all of them together.
    They will not stand their ground, for the day of disaster is coming;
        the time for their punishment is upon them.
22     Egypt will slither away like a hissing serpent
        as her enemy marches on.
    They will come with axes,
        like woodsmen who cut down trees.
23     I, the Eternal One, declare, “As thick as the forest of Egypt might be,
        they will chop her down,
    For they are more numerous than locusts,
        their numbers too great to count.

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