Jeremiah 46:14-16

New International Reader's Version

¹⁴ “Egyptians, here is what I want you to announce in your land.
    Announce it in the city of Migdol.
    Also announce it in Memphis and Tahpanhes.
Say, ‘Take up your battle positions! Get ready!
    The sword eats up those around you.’
¹⁵ Why are your soldiers lying on the ground?
    They can’t stand, because I bring them down.
¹⁶ They will trip again and again.
    They will fall over one another.
They will say, ‘Get up. Let’s go back home.
    Let’s return to our own people and our own lands.
Let’s get away from the swords
    that will bring us great harm.’