MLV(i)
20 Egypt is a very fair heifer, but destruction out of the north has come, it has come.
21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their visitation.
22 Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23 They will cut down her forest, says Jehovah, though it cannot be searched because they are more than the locusts and are innumerable. 24 The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame. She will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says, Behold, I will punish Amon of No and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings, even Pharaoh and those 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 afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of long-ago, says Jehovah.
23 They will cut down her forest, says Jehovah, though it cannot be searched because they are more than the locusts and are innumerable. 24 The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame. She will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says, Behold, I will punish Amon of No and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings, even Pharaoh and those 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 afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of long-ago, says Jehovah.