Rotherham(i)
13 The word which Yahweh spake, unto Jeremiah the prophet,––as to the coming of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to smite the land of Egypt:––
14 Tell ye it in Egypt, And let it be heard in Migdol, Yea let it be heard in Noph, and in Tahpanhes,––Say ye––Stand thou forth, and prepare thyself, For a sword hath devoured round about thee.
15 Wherefore, have thy valiant ones been laid prostrate? He hath made no stand, because, Yahweh, hath driven him back:
16 Hath made many a one to be stumbling, Yea fallen, is every one against his neighbour, So they have said––Arise and let us return to our own people, And unto the land of our birth, From the face of the sword of the oppressor.
17 Proclaim ye a name,––Pharaoh, king of Egypt––a Sound! He hath overstepped the time appointed!
18 As I live, saith the King, Yahweh of hosts, is his name: Though, Like Tabor, among mountains, Like Carmel, Into the sea shall he go!
19 Baggage for captivity, prepare thee, O inhabitress, daughter of Egypt; For, Noph, shall become, a desolation, And be burned, without inhabitant.
20 A calf of great beauty, is Egypt: The gad–fly, out of the North, cometh––cometh.
21 Even her hirelings, in her midst, are like fatted calves, For, even they, have turned––have fled at once! have made no stand! For, their day of doom, hath come upon them, The time of their visitation.
22 Her noise, like a serpent, departeth,––For, with a force, they advance, And, with axes, have they come against her, like them who fell trees:
23 They have cut down her forest, Declareth Yahweh, Surely he cannot be searched out,––For they have outnumbered locusts, and cannot, be counted.
24 Put to shame, is the daughter of Egypt,––She hath been delivered into the hand of the people of the North.
25 Saith Yahweh of host, God of Israel,––Behold me! bringing punishment––against Amon of No, and upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt, and upon her gods, and upon her kings,––Even upon Pharaoh, and upon all that trust in him;
26 And I will deliver them––Into the hand of them who are seeking their life, Even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of his servants,––And, after that, shall it be inhabited as in the days of old, Declareth Yahweh.