11 “For thus says the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
12 I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. “They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt,and all its multitude shall perish.
13 I will destroy all its beastsfrom beside many waters; and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore,nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14 Then I will make their waters clear,and cause their rivers to run like oil,declares the Lord God.
15 When I make the land of Egypt desolate,and when the land is desolate of all that fills it,when I strike down all who dwell in it,then they will know that I am the Lord.
16 This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord God.”
17 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: