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16 Your multitude stumbled[a] and fell,
    and one said to another,[b]
‘Come, let us go back to our own people
    and to the land of our birth,
    because of the destroying sword.’
17 Give Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the name
    ‘Braggart who missed his chance.’

18 As I live, says the King,
    whose name is the Lord of hosts,
one is coming
    like Tabor among the mountains,
    and like Carmel by the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:16 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. Jeremiah 46:16 Gk: Heb and fell one to another and they said

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