15. Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.
16. He made many to stumble, yes, they fell on one another: and they said, ‘Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.’
17. They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’
18. “As I live,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19. You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burned up, without inhabitant.
20. “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.
21. Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.
22. It’s sound will go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
23. 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. The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.”