7 Who is this? Like the Nile, it rears up;like rivers, its waters surge.
8 Egypt rears up like the Nile,like rivers, its waters surge.“I will rear up,” it says, “and cover the earth,destroying the city and its people.
9 Forward, horses!charge, chariots!March forth, warriors,Cush and Put, bearing shields,Archers of Lud, stretching bows!”
10 Today belongs to the Lord God of hosts,a day of vengeance, vengeance on his foes!The sword devours and is sated, drunk with their blood:for the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrificein the land of the north, on the River Euphrates.
11 Go up to Gilead, procure balm,Virgin daughter Egypt!No use to multiply remedies;for you there is no healing.
12 The nations hear your cries,your screaming fills the earth.Warrior stumbles against warrior,both collapse together.
13 The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came to attack the land of Egypt: