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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