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20 “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer;
    but destruction out of the north has come.
    It has come.
21 Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall;
    for they also are turned back.
    They have fled away together.
They didn’t stand,
    for the day of their calamity has come on them,
    the time of their visitation.
22 Its sound will go like the serpent;
    for they will march with an army,
    and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

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20 “Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
    but a gadfly is coming
    against her from the north.(A)
21 The mercenaries(B) in her ranks
    are like fattened calves.(C)
They too will turn and flee(D) together,
    they will not stand their ground,
for the day(E) of disaster is coming upon them,
    the time(F) for them to be punished.
22 Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent
    as the enemy advances in force;
they will come against her with axes,
    like men who cut down trees.(G)

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