17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed.
18 As I live,
19 O you daughter dwelling in Egypt, prepare yourself to go into captivity: for Memphis shall become a waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a beautiful heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.
21 Also her hired soldiers are in the midst of her like fatted calves; for they also are turned back, and have fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come upon them, and the time of their punishment.
22 Her sound shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, like hewers of wood.
23 They shall cut down her forest,