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16 They have repeatedly (A)stumbled;
Indeed, they have fallen one against another.
Then they said, ‘Rise up! And (B)let us return
To our own people and land of our birth
Away from the [a](C)sword of the oppressor.’
17 [b]They called out there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but (D)a rumbling;
He has let the appointed time pass by!’
18 As I live,” declares the (E)King
Whose name is Yahweh of hosts,
“Surely one shall come who looms up like (F)Tabor among the mountains,
Or like (G)Carmel by the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:16 Lit oppressing sword
  2. Jeremiah 46:17 Some ancient versions Call the name of Pharaoh a rumbling