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They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
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Verse 5. Glory. The alliance of these nations shall not avail the Jews, who are said to inhabit an island, because they neglected God’s service no less than the most distant and abandoned nations. Calmet.—The changes in empires must convince us to depend only on God, since Damascus and Egypt could not save the Hebrews, nor even themselves. Worthington.
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