¹⁴ “Declare in Egypt and proclaim in ^(C)Migdol,
Proclaim also in Memphis and ^(D)Tahpanhes;
Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready,
For the ^(E)sword has devoured those around you.’
¹⁵ Why have your ^(F)powerful ones been cut down?
They do not stand because the Lord has ^(G)thrust them away.
¹⁶ They have repeatedly ^(H)stumbled;
Indeed, they have fallen, one against another.
Then they said, ‘Get up, and ^(I)let’s go back
To our own people and our native land,
Away from the ^[b](J)sword of the oppressor!’
^17 [c]They shouted there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is nothing but ^(K)a big noise;
He has let the appointed time pass by!’
¹⁸ As I live,” declares the ^(L)King,
Whose name is the Lord of armies,
“One certainly shall come who is like ^(M)Tabor among the mountains,
Or like ^(N)Carmel by the sea.
¹⁹ Make your baggage ready for ^(O)exile,
^(P)Daughter living in Egypt,
For ^(Q)Memphis will become a desolation;
It will be destroyed and ^[d]deprived of inhabitants.
²⁰ Egypt is a pretty ^(R)heifer,
But a ^[e]horsefly is coming ^(S)from the north—it is coming!
²¹ Also her ^(T)mercenaries in her midst
Are like fattened ^(U)calves,
For they too have turned away and have fled together;
They did not stand their ground.
For the day of their disaster has come upon them,
The time of their ^(V)punishment.
²² Its sound moves along like a serpent;
For they move on ^[f]like an army
And come to her as woodcutters with axes.
²³ They have cut down her ^(W)forest,” declares the Lord;
“Certainly it will no longer be found,
Even though ^[g]they are more numerous than ^(X)locusts
And are without number.
²⁴ The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame,
Turned over to the ^[h]power of the ^(Y)people of the north.”