17 They cried there,
‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise.
He has passed by the appointed time!’

18 “As I live,” says the King,
^aWhose name is the Lord of hosts,
“Surely as Tabor is among the mountains
And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come. ‡

20 “Egypt is a very pretty ^aheifer,
But destruction comes, it comes ^bfrom the north. ‡

21 Also her mercenaries are in her midst like¹ fat bulls,
For they also are turned back,
They have fled away together.
They did not stand,
For ^athe day of their calamity had come upon them,
The time of their punishment. ‡