Jeremiah 46  New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ Who is this, rising like the Nile,
    like rivers whose waters surge?
⁸ Egypt rises like the Nile,
    like rivers whose waters surge.
It said, Let me rise, let me cover the earth,
    let me destroy cities and their inhabitants.
⁹ Advance, O horses,
    and dash madly, O chariots!
Let the warriors go forth:
    Ethiopia^[a] and Put who carry the shield,
    the Ludim, who draw^[b] the bow.
¹⁰ That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
    a day of retribution,
    to gain vindication from his foes.
The sword shall devour and be sated,
    and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice
    in the land of the north by the river Euphrates.
¹¹ Go up to Gilead, and take balm,
    O virgin daughter Egypt!
In vain you have used many medicines;
    there is no healing for you.
¹² The nations have heard of your shame,
    and the earth is full of your cry;
for warrior has stumbled against warrior;
    both have fallen together.

¹⁸ As I live, says the King,
    whose name is the Lord of hosts,
one is coming
    like Tabor among the mountains,
    and like Carmel by the sea.
¹⁹ Pack your bags for exile,
    sheltered daughter Egypt!
For Memphis shall become a waste,
    a ruin, without inhabitant.

²⁰ A beautiful heifer is Egypt—
    a gadfly from the north lights upon her.
²¹ Even her mercenaries in her midst
    are like fatted calves;
they too have turned and fled together,
    they did not stand;
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
    the time of their punishment.

²² She makes a sound like a snake gliding away;
    for her enemies march in force,
and come against her with axes,
    like those who fell trees.
²³ They shall cut down her forest,
says the Lord,
    though it is impenetrable,
because they are more numerous
    than locusts;
    they are without number.
²⁴ Daughter Egypt shall be put to shame;
    she shall be handed over to a people from the north.