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 amongst 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 burnt up,without inhabitant.
20. “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer;but destruction out of the north has come.It has come.