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Even though Israel’s officials are in Zoan,
and their envoys have gone as far as Hanes,
they will all be humiliated
because of a people that is useless to them.
They can neither help nor provide any benefit.
They bring only shame and reproach.

Judah’s Envoys Take Tribute to Egypt

An oracle about the animals of the Negev.

Through the land of trouble and distress,
the land of the lioness and the lion,
of the viper and the venomous flying serpent,
Judah’s envoys carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on camels’ humps,
to a nation that cannot help them.

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