Warning in Egypt

13The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:

14Declare it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Noph and in Tahpanhes. Say, ‘Take your stand and prepare yourself, for the sword has devoured those around you.’

15Why has your mighty one been swept away? He did not stand, for Yahweh drove him away.

16He has multiplied the stumbling; indeed, each man falls against his companion, and they say, “Come, and let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.”

17There they cry, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’

18As I live, declares the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely as Tabor among the mountains and as Carmel by the sea, so he will come.