18 As I live—
this is the King’s declaration;
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.(A)
He will come like Tabor among the mountains
and like Carmel by the sea.
19 Get your bags ready for exile,
inhabitant of Daughter Egypt!(B)
For Memphis will become a desolation,
uninhabited ruins.

20 Egypt is a beautiful young cow,(C)
but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:20 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read is coming, coming

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