13 *The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how gNebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

14  Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in hMigdol,

And publish in iNoph and in kTahpanhes:

Say ye, lStand fast, and prepare thee;

For mthe sword shall devour round about thee.

15  Why are thy nvaliant men oswept away?

They stood not, because the Lord did drive them.

16  fHe †made many to fall,

fpYea, one fell upon another:

And they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people,

And to the land of our nativity,

qFrom the oppressing sword.

17  They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but ra noise;

sHe hath passed the time appointed.

18  tAs I live, usaith the King,

uvWhose name is the Lord of hosts,

Surely as wTabor is among the mountains,

And as xCarmel by the sea, so shall he come.

19  O ythou daughter dwelling in Egypt,

†Furnish thyself zto go into captivity:

For iNoph ashall be waste

And desolate bwithout an inhabitant.

20  Egypt is like a very fair cheifer,

But destruction cometh; it cometh dout of the north.

21  Also eher hired men are in the midst of her like †fatted bullocks;

For they also fare turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand,

Because ghthe day of their calamity was come upon them, and hthe time iof their visitation.

22  kThe voice thereof shall go llike a serpent;

For they shall march with an army,

And come against her with axes, mas hewers of wood.

23  mThey shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord,

Though nit cannot be searched;

Because they are more than othe grasshoppers,

And are innumerable.

24  The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded;

She shall be delivered into the hand of the people of dthe north.

25  The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith;

Behold, I will punish the ||†emultitude of fNo,

And Pharaoh, and Egypt, gwith their gods, and their kings;

Even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:

26  And hI will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives,

And into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,

And into the hand of his servants:

And iafterward it shall be inhabited,

As in kthe days of old, saith the Lord.