15 Why are your valiant men swept away?
They did not stand
Because the Lord drove them away.

16 He made many fall;
Yes, ^aone fell upon another.
And they said, ‘Arise!
^bLet us go back to our own people
And to the land of our nativity
From the oppressing sword.’ ‡

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. ‡

19 O ^ayou daughter dwelling in Egypt,
Prepare yourself ^bto go into captivity!
For¹ Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant. ‡