Jeremiah 46:19-23

“Make your baggage ready for exile, Daughter living in Egypt, For Memphis will become a desolation; It will be destroyed and deprived of inhabitants.

“Egypt is a pretty heifer, But a horsefly is coming from the north—it is coming!

“Also her mercenaries in her midst Are like fattened calves, For they too have turned away and have fled together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their disaster has come upon them, The time of their punishment.

“Its sound moves along like a serpent; For they move on like an army And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

“They have cut down her forest,” declares the Lord; “Certainly it will no longer be found, Even though they are more numerous than locusts And are without number.