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Rh :Cush and Put, that handle the shield,
 * And the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.


 * For the Lord of hosts shall have on that day
 * A day of vengeance, that He may avenge Him of His adversaries;
 * And the sword shall devour and be satiate,
 * And shall be made drunk with their blood;
 * For the Lord of hosts hath a sacrifice
 * In the north country by the river Euphrates.
 * Go up into Gilead, and take balm,
 * O virgin daughter of Egypt;
 * In vain dost thou use many medicines;
 * There is no cure for thee.
 * The nations have heard of thy shame,
 * And the earth is full of thy cry;
 * For the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,
 * They are fallen both of them together.

The word that the spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.


 * Declare ye in Egypt, and announce in Migdol,
 * And announce in Noph and in Tahpanhes;
 * Say ye: 'Stand forth, and prepare thee,
 * For the sword hath devoured round about thee.'
 * Why is thy strong one overthrown?
 * He stood not, because the did thrust him down.
 * He made many to stumble;
 * Yea, they fell one upon another,
 * And said: 'Arise, and let us return to our own people,
 * And to the land of our birth,
 * From the oppressing sword.'
 * They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;
 * He hath let the appointed time pass by.'
 * As I live, saith the King,
 * Whose name is the of hosts,
 * Surely like Tabor among the mountains,
 * And like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
 * O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt,
 * Furnish thyself to go into captivity;
 * For Noph shall become a desolation,
 * And shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.


 * Egypt is a very fair heifer;
 * But the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.
 * Also her mercenaries in the midst of her
 * Are like calves of the stall,
 * For they also are turned back, they are fled away together,
 * They did not stand;
 * For the day of their calamity is come upon them,
 * The time of their visitation.
 * The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's;
 * For they march with an army,
 * And come against her with axes,
 * As hewers of wood.
 * They cut down her forest, saith the ,
 * Though it cannot be searched;
 * Because they are more than the locusts,
 * And are innumerable.