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What is this shameful spectacle I behold?
    They fall back in terror.
Their warriors are routed
    and are in headlong flight
    without glancing back.
There is terror on every side,
    says the Lord.
The swift cannot flee,
    nor can the brave warriors escape.
In the north, by the River Euphrates,
    they have stumbled and fallen.
Who is this that rises like the Nile,
    like rivers of torrential waters?

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