3For near [is] a day, near [is] a day to Jehovah! A day of clouds, the time of nations it is.
4And come in hath a sword to Egypt, And there hath been great pain in Cush, In the falling of the wounded in Egypt, And they have taken its store, And broken down have been its foundations.
5Cush, and Phut, and Lud, and all the mixture, and Chub, And the sons of the land of the covenant with them by sword do fall,
6Thus said Jehovah: And -- fallen have supporters of Egypt, And come down hath the arrogance of her strength, From Migdol to Syene, by sword they fall in her, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
7And they have been desolated in the midst of desolate lands, And its cities are in the midst of wasted cities.
8And they have known that I [am] Jehovah, In My giving fire against Egypt, And broken have been all her helpers.
9In that day go forth do messengers from before Me in ships, To trouble confident Cush, And there hath been great pain among them, As the day of Egypt, for lo, it hath come.