13. The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias the prophet, how Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:
14. Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it be known in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare thyself: for the sword shall devour all round about thee.
15. Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because the Lord hath overthrown them.
16. He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen upon another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own people, and to the land our nativity, from the sword of the dove.
17. Call ye the name of Pharao king Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.
18. As I live, (saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19. Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and uninhabited.
20. Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.
21. Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
22. Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.
23. They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.
24. The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25. The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said: Behold I will visit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt, and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, upon them that trust in him.