16 In that day Egypt will (A)be like women, and will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, (B)which He waves over it.

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13 Surely, (A)your people in your midst are women!
The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies;
Fire shall devour the (B)bars of your gates.

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30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They have remained in their strongholds;
Their might has failed,
(A)They became like women;
They have burned her dwelling places,
(B)The bars of her gate are broken.

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37 A sword is against their horses,
Against their chariots,
And against all (A)the mixed peoples who are in her midst;
And (B)they will become like women.
A sword is against her treasures, and they will be robbed.

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“For thus says the Lord:

‘We have heard a voice of trembling,
Of [a]fear, and not of peace.
Ask now, and see,
Whether a [b]man is ever in [c]labor with child?
So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins
(A)Like a woman in labor,
And all faces turned pale?
(B)Alas! For that day is great,
(C)So that none is like it;
And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble,
But he shall be saved out of it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 30:5 dread
  2. Jeremiah 30:6 Lit. male can give birth
  3. Jeremiah 30:6 childbirth

15 The Lord (A)will utterly [a]destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt;
With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over [b]the River,
And strike it in the seven streams,
And make men cross over [c]dry-shod.

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  1. Isaiah 11:15 So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Syr., Tg. dry up
  2. Isaiah 11:15 The Euphrates
  3. Isaiah 11:15 Lit. in sandals

For surely I will (A)shake My hand against them, and they shall become [a]spoil for their servants. Then (B)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.

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  1. Zechariah 2:9 booty or plunder

32 As yet he will remain (A)at Nob that day;
He will (B)shake his fist at the mount of (C)the daughter of Zion,
The hill of Jerusalem.

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31 (A)It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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30 (A)The Lord will cause His glorious voice to be heard,
And show the descent of His arm,
With the indignation of His anger
And the flame of a devouring fire,
With scattering, tempest, (B)and hailstones.
31 For (C)through the voice of the Lord
Assyria will be [a]beaten down,
As He strikes with the (D)rod.
32 And in every place where the staff of punishment passes,
Which the Lord lays on him,
It will be with tambourines and harps;
And in battles of (E)brandishing He will fight with it.

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  1. Isaiah 30:31 Lit. shattered

17 (A)One thousand shall flee at the threat of one,
At the threat of five you shall flee,
Till you are left as a [a]pole on top of a mountain
And as a banner on a hill.

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  1. Isaiah 30:17 A tree stripped of branches

Fear (A)took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

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