13. The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon would come and strike the land of Egypt.
14. “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol;Proclaim in Noph and in Tahpanhes;Say, ‘Stand fast and prepare yourselves,For the sword devours all around you.’
15. Why are your valiant men swept away?They did not standBecause the Lord drove them away.
16. He made many fall;Yes, one fell upon another.And they said, ‘Arise!Let us go back to our own peopleAnd to the land of our nativityFrom the oppressing sword.’
17. They cried there,‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise.He has passed by the appointed time!’
18. “As I live,” says the King,Whose name is the Lord of hosts,“Surely as Tabor is among the mountainsAnd as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.
19. O you daughter dwelling in Egypt,Prepare yourself to go into captivity!For Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.
20. “Egypt is a very pretty heifer,But destruction comes, it comes from the north.