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23 They will cut down her forest,” declares[a] Yahweh,
    “for it is impenetrable.[b]
Yes, they are more numerous than locusts,[c]
    and they are without number.[d]
24 The daughter of Egypt will be ashamed,
    she will be given into the hand of the people of the north.”

25 Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, said, “Look, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:23 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 46:23 Literally “it cannot be searched out”
  3. Jeremiah 46:23 Hebrew “locust”
  4. Jeremiah 46:23 Literally “there is not to them a number”