Jeremiah 46:8

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8Egypt rises like the Nile,
Even like the rivers whose waters surge about.
And 46:8 This may be viewed as an ironic declaration by God: the Nile rises and floods Egypt providing irrigation, and God says He will do the same thing, but in a sense destroying Egypt (see v 10).He has said, “I will rise, I will cover that land;
I will certainly destroy the city and its inhabitants.”