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Are you any better than the city of Thebes,[a]
    situated on the Nile River, surrounded by water?
She was protected by the river on all sides,
    walled in by water.
Ethiopia[b] and the land of Egypt
    gave unlimited assistance.
The nations of Put and Libya
    were among her allies.
10 Yet Thebes fell,
    and her people were led away as captives.
Her babies were dashed to death
    against the stones of the streets.
Soldiers threw dice[c] to get Egyptian officers as servants.
    All their leaders were bound in chains.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:8 Hebrew No-amon; also in 3:10.
  2. 3:9 Hebrew Cush.
  3. 3:10 Hebrew They cast lots.

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