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The swift can’t flee;
    the mighty can’t escape.
Up north by the Euphrates River,
    they stagger and fall.

Who is this that rises like the Nile,
    whose banks overflow?[a]
It’s Egypt that rises like the Nile,
    whose banks overflow,[b]
        who declares, “I will arise
        and cover the earth
        and destroy cities and inhabitants.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:7 Or like rivers whose waters roar
  2. Jeremiah 46:8 Or like rivers whose waters roar

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