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16 
“He will make many stumble and fall;
Yes, they have fallen one on another.
Then they said, ‘Arise, and let us go back
To our own people and to the land of our birth,
Away from the sword of the oppressor.’
17 
“They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed and is merely a loud noise;
He has let the appointed time [of opportunity] pass by!’
18 
“As I live,” says the King,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts,
“Surely like [a]Tabor among the mountains
Or like Carmel by the sea,
So shall he [the great king of Babylon] come.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:18 Tabor and Carmel are landmark mountains in Israel.

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