14. Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand fast, and prepare you; for the sword shall devour all around you.
15. Why are your valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16. He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17. They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed.
18. As I live,
19. O you daughter dwelling in Egypt, prepare yourself to go into captivity: for Memphis shall become a waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20. Egypt is like a beautiful heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.
21. Also her hired soldiers are in the midst of her like fatted calves; for they also are turned back, and have fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come upon them, and the time of their punishment.
22. Her sound shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, like hewers of wood.
23. They shall cut down her forest,
24. The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.