Jeremiah 46:19-21

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁹Pack your bags for exile,
sheltered daughter Egypt!
For Memphis shall become a waste,
a ruin, without inhabitant.

²⁰A beautiful heifer is Egypt—
    a gadfly from the north lights upon her.
²¹Even her mercenaries in her midst
    are like fatted calves;
they too have turned and fled together,
    they did not stand;
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
    the time of their punishment.

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