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Who is this that rises like the Nile,
    like a river flooding its banks?
It is Egypt, rising like the Nile,
    like a river flooding its banks.
Egypt said, ‘I will rise and cover the world;
    I will destroy cities and the people who live there.
Command the horses to go
    and the chariots to roll!
Send out the soldiers:
    men from Ethiopia[a] and Libya, carrying shields,
    and skilled archers from Lydia.’”

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  1. Jeremiah 46:9 Hebrew Cush: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).

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