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“The swift cannot flee,
nor the warrior escape.
In the north by the river Euphrates
they stumbled and fell.
Who is this, rising like the Nile,
like the rivers whose waters churn?
Egypt rises like the Nile,
like the rivers whose waters churn.
He says: ‘I will rise up,
I will cover the earth,
I will destroy the city
and its inhabitants!’

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