Jeremiah 46:13–26

¹³The word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the coming in of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to smite the land of Egypt: ¹⁴‘Declare ye in Egypt, and sound in Migdol, Yea, sound in Noph, and in Tahpanhes say: Station thyself, yea, prepare for thee, For a sword hath devoured around thee, ¹⁵Wherefore hath thy bull been swept away? He hath not stood, because Jehovah thrust him away. ¹⁶He hath multiplied the stumbling, Yea one hath fallen upon his neighbour, And they say: Rise, and we turn back to our people, And unto the land of our birth, Because of the oppressing sword. ¹⁷They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt is a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time. ¹⁸I live—an affirmation of the King, Jehovah of Hosts is His name, Surely as Tabor is among mountains, And as Carmel by the sea—he cometh in, ¹⁹Goods for removal make for thee, O inhabitant, daughter of Egypt, For Noph becometh a desolation, And hath been burnt up, without inhabitant. ²⁰A heifer very fair is Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her. ²¹Even her hired ones in her midst are as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity hath come on them, The time of their inspection. ²²Its voice as a serpent goeth on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees. ²³They have cut down her forest, An affirmation of Jehovah—for it is not searched, For they have been more than the grasshopper, And they have no numbering. ²⁴Ashamed hath been the daughter of Egypt, She hath been given into the hand of the people of the north. ²⁵Said hath Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am seeing after Amon of No, And after Pharaoh, and after Egypt, And after her gods, and after her kings, And after Pharaoh, and after those trusting in him, ²⁶And I have given them into the hand of those seeking their life, And into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of his servants, And afterwards it is inhabited, As in days of old—an affirmation of Jehovah.