bout thee.
46:15. Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because
the Lord hath overthrown them.
46:16. He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen upon
another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own people,
and to the land of our nativity, from the sword of the dove.
The dove... See the annotation on chap. 25., ver. 38.
46:17. Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath
brought.
46:18. As I live, saith the King, (whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as
Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he
come.
46:19. Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of
Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and
uninhabited.
46:20. Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from
the north one that shall goad her.
46:21. Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted
calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not
stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of
their visitation.
46:22. Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an
army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.
46:23. They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be
counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.
46:24. The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into the hand
of the people of the north.
46:25. The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said: Behold I will
visit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt,
and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, and upon them
that trust in him.
Visit upon... That is, punish.-Ibid. Alexandria... In the Hebrew, No,
which was the ancient name of the city, to which Alexander gave
afterwards the name of Alexandria.
46:26. And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek their
lives, and into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the
hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the
days of old, saith the Lord.
46:27. And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and be not thou dismayed, O
Israel: for behold I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed out of
the land of thy captivity: and Jacob shall return and be at rest, and
prosper: and there shall be none to terrify him.
46:28. And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the Lord: becaus
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