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12 I[a] will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them—or carry them away to captivity. He will wrap Egypt around himself as a shepherd wraps a cloak around himself.[b] Then he will go away in peace. 13 He will smash the sacred obelisks in the temple of the sun[c] in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the Egyptian gods.”

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  1. Jeremiah 43:12 Hebrew I; some ancient translations read he.
  2. Jeremiah 43:12 Or he will pick Egypt clean as a shepherd picks lice from his clothing
  3. Jeremiah 43:13 Or in Heliopolis, the city of the sun