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15 Why are your (A)mighty ones thrown down?
They do not stand because Yahweh has (B)thrust them down.
16 They have repeatedly (C)stumbled;
Indeed, they have fallen one against another.
Then they said, ‘Rise up! And (D)let us return
To our own people and land of our birth
Away from the [a](E)sword of the oppressor.’
17 [b]They called out there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but (F)a rumbling;
He has let the appointed time pass by!’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:16 Lit oppressing sword
  2. Jeremiah 46:17 Some ancient versions Call the name of Pharaoh a rumbling

15 Why will your warriors be laid low?
    They cannot stand, for the Lord will push them down.(A)
16 They will stumble(B) repeatedly;
    they will fall(C) over each other.
They will say, ‘Get up, let us go back
    to our own people(D) and our native lands,
    away from the sword of the oppressor.’(E)
17 There they will exclaim,
    ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise;(F)
    he has missed his opportunity.(G)

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