Babylonia Will Strike Egypt

The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon would come and strike the land of Egypt.

“Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; Proclaim in Noph and in Tahpanhes; Say, ‘Stand fast and prepare yourselves, For the sword devours all around you.’

They cried there, ‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise. He has passed by the appointed time!’

O you daughter dwelling in Egypt, Prepare yourself to go into captivity! For Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

“Egypt is a very pretty heifer, But destruction comes, it comes from the north.

The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed; She shall be delivered into the hand Of the people of the north.”

The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of No, and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings—Pharaoh and those who trust in him.