Jeremiah 46:19-21

Good News Translation

¹⁹ Get ready to be taken prisoner,
    you people of Egypt!
Memphis will be made a desert,
    a ruin where no one lives.
²⁰ Egypt is like a splendid cow,
    attacked by a stinging fly from the north.
²¹ Even her hired soldiers
    are helpless as calves.
They did not stand and fight;
    all of them turned and ran.
The day of their doom had arrived,
    the time of their destruction.