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19 Pack your baggage for exile,
    O inhabitants[a] of the daughter of Egypt,
for Memphis will become as a horror,
    and it will be destroyed, without[b] inhabitant.
20 Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
    but a gadfly from the north will come against her.
21 Even her mercenaries in her midst are like calves of fattening,
    for they also have turned away,
    they have fled together.
They stand not,
    for the day of their calamity has come,
    the time of their punishment.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:19 Hebrew “inhabitant”
  2. Jeremiah 46:19 Literally “from there is not”