Thomson(i)
13 The words which the Lord spoke by the ministry of Jeremias, that the King of Babylon would come and smite the land of Egypt.
14 Despatch messengers to Magdolus; send also to Memphis. Say, to arms! and be ready! for a sword hath laid waste thy grove.
15 Why did Apis flee from thee? Thy chosen bull, why did he not stand?
16 because the Lord made him weak and thy multitude was weak and fell. Therefore every one said to his fellow, Let us arise and return to our people, to our native land, from the face of the Grecian sword.
17 Call the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, "Saon-Esbie-Moed." [Meaning an Empty sound]
18 As I live, saith the Lord God, like Itaburion among the mountains, and like Channel which is by the sea he shall come. Get ready utensils for thy removal,
19 well housed daughter of Egypt! for Memphis shall be a waste and shall be called, "Alas" because in it there are no inhabitants.
20 Egypt was a beautiful heifer; a detachment from the north came against her.
21 And the mercenaries, which she had with her, were like fatted bulls which she had fed. For they turned and fled with one consent: they made no stand, because the day of destruction came upon them and the time of their visitation.
22 Their sound is that of a hissing serpent; for they march in dust. With axes they will come against her;
23 like fellers of timber they will cut down her groves, saith the Lord. Because she would not be assimilated. Because she increaseth more than locusts which are innumerable;
24 the daughter of Egypt is put to shame: she is delivered into the hands of a people from the north.
25 Behold I will punish her son Ammon in the person of Pharao, and in the persons of them who trusted in him.
26 [Omitted]