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17 They gave this nickname to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt:
    “One who boasts but never succeeds.”
18 As I live, says the King,
    whose name is the Lord of hosts,
one is coming like Tabor[a] among the mountains,
    like Carmel by the sea.
19 Prepare your baggage to go into exile,
    you inhabitants of Egypt.
Memphis will become a desert waste,
    a desolate, uninhabited ruin.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:18 Like Tabor: the reference is to Nebuchadnezzar. Tabor dominates the plain of Galilee.