Jeremiah 46:13–26

¹³The word that Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, concerning the coming of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt: ¹⁴Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph, and in Tahpanhes; say, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword devoureth round about thee. ¹⁵Why are thy valiants swept away? They stood not, for Jehovah did thrust them down. ¹⁶He made many to stumble, yea, one fell upon another; and they said, Arise, and let us return to our own people and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword. ¹⁷There did they cry, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the time appointed go by. ¹⁸As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely as Tabor among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. ¹⁹Thou, inhabitress, daughter of Egypt, furnish for thyself a captive’s baggage, for Noph shall be a desolation and shall be ruined, so that none shall dwell therein. ²⁰Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north. ²¹Also her hired men in the midst of her are like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, they have fled away together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation. ²²Her voice shall go like a serpent’s; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. ²³They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it be impenetrable; for they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. ²⁴The daughter of Egypt is put to shame; she is delivered into the hand of the people of the north. ²⁵Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith, Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings; yea, Pharaoh and them that confide in him. ²⁶And I will give them into the hand of those that seek their life, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; but afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.