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They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’

Jeremiah 46:17 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીયર્મિયા ૪૬:૧૭
ત્યાં તેઓએ પોકારીને કહ્યું કે, “મિસરનો રાજા ફારુન કેવળ ઘોંઘાટ છે તેણે આવેલી તક ગુમાવી છે.”
हिन्दीयिर्मयाह ४६:१७
वहाँ वे पुकारके कहते हैं, ‘मिस्र का राजा फ़िरौन सत्यानाश हुआ; क्योंकि उसने अपना बहुमूल्य अवसर खो दिया।’

In context

15Why are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because the LORD pushed them.

16He made many to stumble. Yes, they fell on one another. They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.’

17They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’

18“As I live,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.

19You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burned up, without inhabitant.

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