^{13 Ref} The word which the Lord said to Jeremiah the prophet, of how Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, would come and make war on the land of Egypt.

^{14 Ref} Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.

^{15 Ref} Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.

^{16 Ref} ... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.

^{17 Ref} Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.

^{18 Ref} By my life, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies, truly, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so will he come.

^{19 Ref} O daughter living in Egypt, make ready the vessels of a prisoner: for Noph will become a waste, it will be burned up and become unpeopled.

^{20 Ref} Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.

^{21 Ref} And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.

^{22 Ref} She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.

^{23 Ref} They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.

^{24 Ref} The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.

^{25 Ref} The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on Amon of No and on Pharaoh and on those who put their faith in him;

^{26 Ref} And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.