11. Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt.You use many medicines in vain.There is no healing for you.
12. The nations have heard of your shame,and the earth is full of your cry;for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty,they both fall together.”
13. The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.
14. “Declare in Egypt,publish in Migdol,and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes:say, ‘Stand up, and prepare;for the sword has devoured around you.’
15. Why are your strong ones swept away?They didn’t stand, because the Lord pushed them.
16. He made many to stumble.Yes, they fell on one another.They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people,and to the land of our birth,from the oppressing sword.’
17. They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;he has let the appointed time pass by.’
18. “As I live,” says the King,whose name is the Lord of Hosts,“surely like Tabor among the mountains,and like Carmel by the sea,so he will come.
19. You daughter who dwells in Egypt,furnish yourself to go into captivity;for Memphis will become a desolation,and will be burned up,without inhabitant.
20. “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer;but destruction out of the north has come.It has come.
21. Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall;for they also are turned back.They have fled away together.They didn’t stand,for the day of their calamity has come on them,the time of their visitation.
22. It’s sound will go like the serpent;for they will march with an army,and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
23. They will cut down her forest,” says the Lord,“though it can’t be searched;because they are more than the locusts,and are innumerable.