²⁰ “Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
    but a gadfly is coming
    against her from the north.^(A)

¹¹ Ephraim is a trained heifer
    that loves to thresh;
so I will put a yoke^(A)
    on her fair neck.
I will drive Ephraim,
    Judah must plow,
    and Jacob must break up the ground.

“See how the waters are rising in the north;^(A)
    they will become an overflowing torrent.
They will overflow the land and everything in it,
    the towns and those who live in them.
The people will cry out;
    all who dwell in the land will wail^(B)

⁶ “The swift cannot flee^(A)
    nor the strong escape.
In the north by the River Euphrates^(B)
    they stumble and fall.^(C)

¹¹ “Because you rejoice and are glad,
    you who pillage my inheritance,^(A)
because you frolic like a heifer^(B) threshing grain
    and neigh like stallions,

²⁴ Daughter Egypt will be put to shame,
    given into the hands of the people of the north.^(A)”

¹⁰ But that day^(A) belongs to the Lord, the Lord Almighty—
    a day of vengeance^(B), for vengeance on his foes.
The sword will devour^(C) till it is satisfied,
    till it has quenched its thirst with blood.^(D)
For the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will offer sacrifice^(E)
    in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.^(F)