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20 Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
    but a gadfly from the north will come against her.
21 Even her mercenaries in her midst are like calves of fattening,
    for they also have turned away,
    they have fled together.
They stand not,
    for the day of their calamity has come,
    the time of their punishment.
22 Her sound is like a snake that glides away,
    for they march in force.
And with axes they come to her
    like those who chop trees.

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