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23 who brings princes to naught
    and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.(A)

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40 he pours contempt on princes
    and makes them wander in trackless wastes,(A)

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21 He pours contempt on princes
    and looses the belt of the strong.(A)

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18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, an object of hissing and of cursing, as they are today;(A) 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people; 20 all the mixed people;[a] all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;(B) 21 Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;(C) 22 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea;(D) 23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have shaved temples;(E) 24 all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed peoples[b] that live in the desert;(F) 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; 26 all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Sheshach[c] shall drink.(G)

27 Then you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink; get drunk and vomit; fall and rise no more because of the sword that I am sending among you.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. 25.20 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 25.24 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 25.26 That is, Babylon

12 They shall call its nobles No Kingdom There,
    and all its princes shall be nothing.

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18 to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of the mighty, the flesh of horses and their riders—flesh of all, both free and slave, both small and great.”(A) 19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to wage war against the rider on the horse and against his army.(B) 20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed in its presence the signs by which he deceived those who had received the brand of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

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51 He has shown strength with his arm;
    he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.(A)
52 He has brought down the powerful from their thrones
    and lifted up the lowly;(B)

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21 On that day the Lord will punish
    the host of heaven in heaven
    and on earth the kings of the earth.(A)
22 They will be gathered together
    like prisoners in a pit;
they will be shut up in a prison,
    and after many days they will be punished.(B)

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The Lord of hosts has planned it—
    to defile the pride of all glory,
    to shame all the honored of the earth.(A)

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13 The princes of Zoan have become fools,
    and the princes of Memphis are deluded;
those who are the cornerstones of its tribes
    have led Egypt astray.(A)
14 The Lord has poured into them[a]
    a spirit of confusion;
and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings
    as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 19.14 Gk Compare Tg: Heb it

12 who cuts off the spirit of princes,
    who inspires fear in the kings of the earth.(A)

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19 who shows no partiality to nobles,
    nor regards the rich more than the poor,
    for they are all the work of his hands?(A)
20 In a moment they die;
    at midnight the people are shaken and pass away,
    and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.(B)

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