19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, make thee gear to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate, without an inhabitant.

20 Egypt is like a [a]fair calf, but destruction cometh: out of the North it cometh.

21 Also her hired men [b]are in the midst of her like fat calves: they are also turned back and fled away together: they could not stand, because the day of their destruction was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:20 They have abundance of all things, and therefore are disobedient and proud.
  2. Jeremiah 46:21 As verse 9.

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