^{20 Ref} A heifer very fair `is' Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.

^{21 Ref} Even her hired ones in her midst `are' as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity hath come on them, The time of their inspection.

^{22 Ref} Its voice as a serpent goeth on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees.

^{23 Ref} They have cut down her forest, An affirmation of Jehovah -- for it is not searched, For they have been more than the grasshopper, And they have no numbering.

^{24 Ref} Ashamed hath been the daughter of Egypt, She hath been given into the hand of the people of the north.

^{25 Ref} Said hath Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am seeing after Amon of No, And after Pharaoh, and after Egypt, And after her gods, and after her kings, And after Pharaoh, and after those trusting in him,

^{26 Ref} And I have given them into the hand of those seeking their life, And into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of his servants, And afterwards it is inhabited, As `in' days of old -- an affirmation of Jehovah.