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15 Egypt, your strong soldiers will be killed.
    They will not be able to stand
    because the Lord will push them down.
16 They will stumble again and again.
    They will fall over each other.
They will say, ‘Get up; let’s go back to our own people.
    Let us go back to our homeland.
Our enemy is defeating us.
    We must get away.’
17 In their homelands, those soldiers will say,
    ‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is only a lot of noise.
    His time of glory is over.’”

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15 Why will your warriors be laid low?
    They cannot stand, for the Lord will push them down.(A)
16 They will stumble(B) repeatedly;
    they will fall(C) over each other.
They will say, ‘Get up, let us go back
    to our own people(D) and our native lands,
    away from the sword of the oppressor.’(E)
17 There they will exclaim,
    ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise;(F)
    he has missed his opportunity.(G)

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