Jeremiah 46:13-26

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁴ Declare this in Egypt. Proclaim it in Migdol.
Proclaim it in Memphis^[a] and Tahpanhes.
Say, “Take your positions and get ready.
The sword is going to devour those around you.”
¹⁵ Why are your mighty ones laid low?^[b]
They cannot stand, for the Lord has pushed them down.
¹⁶ He made many stumble.
They fall against each other.
They say, “Get up! Let’s go back to our people
and to the land of our birth,
away from the sword of our oppressor.”
¹⁷ There they will cry out,
“Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise.
He has missed his opportunity.”
¹⁸ As surely as I live, declares the King,
whose name is the Lord of Armies,
someone is coming who is like Tabor among the mountains,
and like Carmel by the sea.^[c]
19 Get your bags ready to go into exile,
    you daughter who dwells in Egypt,
for Memphis will become a desolation
and lie in ruins without an inhabitant.

²⁰ Egypt is a lovely heifer,
but a horsefly has come against her out of the north.
²¹ The mercenaries in her ranks are like fattened calves.
They will turn and flee together.
They will not stand,
for the day of disaster has come upon them,
the time for their punishment.

²² Egypt will hiss like a snake,
because the enemy will advance as an army.
It will come against her with axes,
like men who cut down trees.
²³ They will cut down her forest, declares the Lord,
though it is impenetrable,
even though they are more numerous than locusts,
even though they are too many to count.

²⁴ The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame,
handed over to the people from the north.