¹⁴ Declare in Egypt and publish in Migdol,
    and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes;
say, “Stand fast and prepare yourself,
    for the sword will devour those about you.”
¹⁵ Why have your valiant men become prostrate?
    They do not stand because the Lord has thrust them down.
¹⁶ He made many to fall.
    Indeed, each one has fallen upon another.
Then they said, “Arise and let us go back
    to our own people and to the land of our nativity,
    away from the oppressing sword.”
¹⁷ They cried there,
    “Pharaoh king of Egypt is a tumult.
    He has let the time appointed pass by!”

¹⁸ As I live, says the King
    whose name is the Lord of Hosts,
surely as Tabor is among the mountains,
    and as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.
¹⁹ O daughter dwelling in Egypt,
    prepare your baggage for captivity,
for Memphis will become desolate,
    it will even be burned down without an inhabitant.

²⁰ Egypt is like a very fair heifer,
    but destruction comes,
    it comes out of the north.
²¹ Also her mercenaries are in her midst
    like fat bulls,
for they also have turned back and have fled away together.
    They did not stand their ground
because the day of their calamity has come upon them,
    even the time of their punishment.
²² Its sound goes along like a serpent,
    for they march on as an army,
and come against her with axes,
    as choppers of wood.
²³ They have cut down her forest,
    says the Lord.
    Surely it will not be found any more,
even though they are now more numerous than the grasshoppers,
    and are innumerable.
²⁴ The daughter of Egypt has been humiliated;
    she has been delivered into the hand of the people of the north.