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jeremiah 46:26 "And I shall give them over to the power of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his officers. Afterwards, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old," declares the LORD.
26. afterward . . . inhabited--Under Cyrus forty years after the
conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar, it threw off the Babylonian yoke
but has never regained its former prowess
(Jer 46:11;
Eze 29:11-15).