17They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.
18As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
20Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
21Also 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 didn`t stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.
22The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
23They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can`t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
