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I will put hooks in your jaws
    and drag you out on the land
    with fish sticking to your scales.
I will leave you and all your fish
    stranded in the wilderness to die.
You will lie unburied on the open ground,
    for I have given you as food to the wild animals and birds.
All the people of Egypt will know that I am the Lord,
    for to Israel you were just a staff made of reeds.

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But I will put hooks(A) in your jaws
    and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales.
I will pull you out from among your streams,
    with all the fish sticking to your scales.(B)
I will leave you in the desert,
    you and all the fish of your streams.
You will fall on the open field
    and not be gathered(C) or picked up.
I will give you as food
    to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the sky.(D)

Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am the Lord.

“‘You have been a staff of reed(E) for the people of Israel.

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