¹⁴ “Declare in Egypt and cause it to be heard in ^(C)Migdol;
Cause it to be heard also in Memphis and ^(D)Tahpanhes;
Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready,
For the ^(E)sword has devoured those around you.’
¹⁵ Why are your ^(F)mighty ones thrown down?
They do not stand because Yahweh has ^(G)thrust them down.
¹⁶ They have repeatedly ^(H)stumbled;
Indeed, they have fallen one against another.
Then they said, ‘Rise up! And ^(I)let us return
To our own people and land of our birth
Away from the ^[b](J)sword of the oppressor.’
^17 [c]They called out there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but ^(K)a rumbling;
He has let the appointed time pass by!’
¹⁸ As I live,” declares the ^(L)King
Whose name is Yahweh of hosts,
“Surely one shall come who looms up like ^(M)Tabor among the mountains,
Or like ^(N)Carmel by the sea.
¹⁹ Make your baggage ready for ^(O)exile,
O inhabitant of the ^(P)daughter of Egypt,
For ^(Q)Memphis will become a desolation;
It will even be turned into ruin and without inhabitants.
²⁰ Egypt is a pretty ^(R)heifer,
But a ^[d]horsefly is coming ^(S)from the north—it is coming!
²¹ Also her ^(T)mercenaries in her midst
Are like ^[e]fattened ^(U)calves,
For even they have turned back and have fled away together;
They did not stand their ground.
For the day of their disaster has come upon them,
The time of their ^(V)punishment.
²² Its sound moves along like a serpent;
For they move on ^[f]like a military force
And come to her as woodcutters with axes.
²³ They have cut down her ^(W)forest,” declares Yahweh;
“Surely it will no longer be searched out,
Even though ^[g]they are now more numerous than ^(X)locusts
And are without number.
²⁴ The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame,
Given over to the hand of the ^(Y)people of the north.”