^{13 Ref} The word that Jehovah spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

^{14 Ref} Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about thee.

^{15 Ref} Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Jehovah did drive them.

^{16 Ref} He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

^{17 Ref} They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

^{18 Ref} As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

^{19 Ref} O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

^{20 Ref} Egypt is a very fair heifer; `but' destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

^{21 Ref} Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

^{22 Ref} The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

^{23 Ref} They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

^{24 Ref} The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

^{25 Ref} Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him:

^{26 Ref} and I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.