Jeremiah 46:13-28

New King James Version

¹⁴ “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in ^(B)Migdol;
Proclaim in ^[a]Noph and in ^(C)Tahpanhes;
Say, ‘Stand fast and prepare yourselves,
For the sword devours all around you.’
¹⁵ Why are your valiant men swept away?
They did not stand
Because the Lord drove them away.
¹⁶ He made many fall;
Yes, ^(D)one fell upon another.
And they said, ‘Arise!
^(E)Let us go back to our own people
And to the land of our nativity
From the oppressing sword.’
¹⁷ They cried there,
‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise.
He has passed by the appointed time!’

¹⁸ “As I live,” says the King,
^(F)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 ^(G)you daughter dwelling in Egypt,
Prepare yourself ^(H)to go into captivity!
For ^[b]Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

²⁰ “Egypt is a very pretty ^(I)heifer,
But destruction comes, it comes ^(J)from the north.
²¹ Also her mercenaries are in her midst like ^[c]fat bulls,
For they also are turned back,
They have fled away together.
They did not stand,
For ^(K)the day of their calamity had come upon them,
The time of their punishment.
^22 (L)Her noise shall go like a serpent,
For they shall march with an army
And come against her with axes,
Like those who chop wood.

²³ “They shall ^(M)cut down her forest,” says the Lord,
“Though it cannot be searched,
Because they are innumerable,
And more numerous than ^(N)grasshoppers.
²⁴ The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed;
She shall be delivered into the hand
Of ^(O)the people of the north.”