en_tn/jer/46/25.md

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Amon of Thebes

"Amon" is the king of the Egyptian gods. "Thebes" is the capital of Egypt, and here represents the entire Egyptian empire. AT: "Amon, god over all of Egypt" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names)

I am giving them... into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his servants

Here Nebuchadnezzar represents the whole nation of Babylon, and his "hand" represents "control." AT: "Yahweh is giving control of Egypt to the nation of Babylon." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

Then after this Egypt will be inhabited as in previous days

AT: "After the punishment of Yahweh, the nation of Egypt will return to being an independent nation."

this is Yahweh's declaration

See how you translated this in Jeremiah 1:9