Jeremiah 46:20-22

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁰ “A beautiful heifer is Egypt,
    but a gadfly from the north has come upon her.
²¹ Even her hired soldiers in her midst
    are like fatted calves;
yea, they have turned and fled together,
    they did not stand;
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
    the time of their punishment.

²² “She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away;
    for her enemies march in force,
and come against her with axes,
    like those who fell trees.