^{20 Ref} Egypt is a very beautiful 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 didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.

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

^{23 Ref} They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

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

^{25 Ref} Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:

^{26 Ref} and I will deliver them into the hand of those who 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, says Yahweh.