18By my life, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies, truly, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so will he come.
19O daughter living in Egypt, make ready the vessels of a prisoner: for Noph will become a waste, it will be burned up and become unpeopled.
20Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
21And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.
22She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.
23They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.
24The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.
