16. He multiplied the ones stumbling. Furthermore, each one fell to his neighbor, and said, ‘Stand up, and let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, because of the presence of the sword of the oppressor.’
17. They will call there, ‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt is but a roar, he missed the opportunity.’
18. As I live,” declares the king, Yahweh of hosts is his name, “one will come like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea.
19. Pack your baggage for exile, O inhabitants of the daughter of Egypt, for Memphis will become as a horror, and it will be destroyed, without inhabitant.
20. Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north will come against her.
21. Even her mercenaries in her midst are like calves of fattening, for they also have turned away, they have fled together. They stand not, for the day of their calamity has come, the time of their punishment.
22. Her sound is like a snake that glides away, for they march in force. And with axes they come to her like those who chop trees.