O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

Furnish thyself - literally, make for thyself vessels (namely, to contain food and other necessaries for the journey) for captivity.

Daughter - so in .

Dwelling in Egypt - i:e., the inhabitants of Egypt, the Egyptians, represented as the daughter of Egypt (; , "The daughter of Zion-the daughter of Jerusalem;" i:e., the inhabitants of Zion and Jerusalem personified as a Virgin). "Dwelling" implies that they thought themselves to be securely fixed in their habitations, beyond the reach of invasion.

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