18. As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19. O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
20. Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
21. 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 did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
22. The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23. They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
24. The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.