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“Declare in Egypt and proclaim in ^[a]Migdol,
And proclaim in ^[b]Memphis and in Tahpanhes;
Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready,
For the sword has devoured those around you.’
¹⁵ 
“Why have your strong ones been cut down?
They do not stand because the Lord drove them away.
¹⁶ 
“He will make many stumble and fall;
Yes, they have fallen one on another.
Then they said, ‘Arise, and let us go back
To our own people and to the land of our birth,
Away from the sword of the oppressor.’
¹⁷ 
“They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed and is merely a loud noise;
He has let the appointed time [of opportunity] pass by!’
¹⁸ 
“As I live,” says the King,
Whose name is the Lord of hosts,
“Surely like ^[c]Tabor among the mountains
Or like Carmel by the sea,
So shall he [the great king of Babylon] come.
¹⁹ 
“O you daughter who dwells in Egypt and you who dwell with her,
Prepare yourselves [with all you will need] to go into exile,
For Memphis will become desolate;
It will even be burned down and without inhabitant.
²⁰ 
“Egypt is a very pretty heifer,
But a horsefly (Babylonia) is coming [against her] out of the north!
²¹ 
“Also her mercenaries in her army
Are like fattened calves,
For they too have turned back and have fled together;
They did not stand [their ground],
Because the day of their disaster has come upon them,
The time of their punishment.
²² 
“The sound [of Egypt fleeing from the enemy] is like [the rustling of] an escaping serpent,
For her foes advance with a mighty army
And come against her like woodcutters with axes.
²³ 
“They have cut down her forest,” says the Lord;
“Certainly it will no longer be found,
Because they (the invaders) are more numerous than locusts
And cannot be counted.
²⁴ 
“The Daughter of Egypt has been shamed,
Given over to the power of the people of the north [the Chaldeans of Babylonia].”