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The Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 46, Verse 15

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Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
King James Version
Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
American Standard Version
Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Jehovah did drive them.
New English Translation
Why will your soldiers be defeated? They will not stand because I, the LORD, will thrust them down.
World English Bible
Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, because Yahweh did drive them.
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He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
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They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
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[As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come.
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O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
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Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
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Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation.
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The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
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They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.
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The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
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The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him: