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

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

^{22 Ref} The voice thereof shall go like a 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 the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

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

^{25 Ref} The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all 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 afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.