11. Go up to Gilead, and take balm,O virgin daughter of Egypt!In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.
12. The nations have heard of your shame,and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior;they have both fallen together.”
13. The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:
14. “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol;proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes;say, ‘Stand ready and be prepared,for the sword shall devour around you.’
15. Why are your mighty ones face down?They do not standbecause the Lord thrust them down.
16. He made many stumble, and they fell,and they said one to another,‘Arise, and let us go back to our own peopleand to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.’
17. Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.’
18. “As I live, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts,like Tabor among the mountainsand like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.
19. Prepare yourselves baggage for exile,O inhabitants of Egypt!For Memphis shall become a waste,a ruin, without inhabitant.