Jeremiah 46:15-17

New International Reader's Version

¹⁵ Why are your soldiers lying on the ground?
    They can’t stand, because I bring them down.
¹⁶ They will trip again and again.
    They will fall over one another.
They will say, ‘Get up. Let’s go back home.
    Let’s return to our own people and our own lands.
Let’s get away from the swords
    that will bring us great harm.’
¹⁷ The Egyptian soldiers will cry out,
    ‘Pharaoh, our king, is only a loud noise.
    He has missed his chance to win the battle.’