¹⁴ “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol,
    and proclaim in Memphis and in Tahpanhes,
say, ‘Take your stand and be prepared,
    for the sword will devour those all around you.’
¹⁵ Why are your bulls defeated?
    He did not stand because Yahweh thrust him down.
¹⁶ He multiplied the ones^[a] stumbling.
    Furthermore, each one fell to his neighbor,
and said, ‘Stand up, and let us return to our people
    and to the land of our birth,
    because of^[b] the presence^[c] of the sword of the oppressor.’
¹⁷ They will call there,
‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt is but a roar,
    he missed the opportunity.’^[d]
18 As I live,”^[e] declares^[f] the king,
    Yahweh of hosts is his name,
“one will come like Tabor among the mountains
    and like Carmel by the sea.
¹⁹ Pack your baggage for exile,
    O inhabitants^[g] of the daughter of Egypt,
for Memphis will become as a horror,
    and it will be destroyed, without^[h] inhabitant.
²⁰ Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
    but a gadfly from the north will come against her.
²¹ Even her mercenaries in her midst are like calves of fattening,
    for they also have turned away,
    they have fled together.
They stand not,
    for the day of their calamity has come,
    the time of their punishment.
²² Her sound is like a snake that glides away,
    for they march in force.
And with axes they come to her
    like those who chop trees.
²³ They will cut down her forest,” declares^[i] Yahweh,
    “for it is impenetrable.^[j]
Yes, they are more numerous than locusts,^[k]
    and they are without number.^[l]
24 The daughter of Egypt will be ashamed,
    she will be given into the hand of the people of the north.”