Jeremiah 46:21-23

Common English Bible

²¹ Even her mercenaries
    are like well-fed calves;
        they too will retreat and run for cover;
        they won’t survive.
The day of disaster has come to haunt them,
    the time of their punishment.
²² Like the sound of a snake hissing
    as it slithers away
        is Egypt^[a] as armies approach in force;
        they come against her with axes,
            like woodcutters.
²³ They destroy her dense forest,
    though it is vast,
        because they outnumber locusts
        and can’t be counted,
            declares the Lord.