MKJV(i)
17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is a noise; he has passed the chosen time.
18 As I live, says the King whose name is Jehovah of Hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.
19 O daughter dwelling in Egypt, get ready to go into captivity. For Noph shall be waste and a desert without inhabitant.
20 Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a stinger from the north surely comes.
21 Also her hired ones are in her midst like calves of the stall; for they also have turned back, fleeing together. They did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come on them, the time of their visitation.
22 Its sound is like a serpent's going, for they shall go in force and come against her with axes like woodcutters.
23 They shall cut down her forest, says Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts and cannot be counted.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed. She shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings; even Pharaoh and all who trust in him;
26 and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. And afterward it will be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Jehovah.