Jeremiah 46:7-9

Good News Translation

⁷ Who is this that rises like the Nile,
    like a river flooding its banks?
⁸ It is Egypt, rising like the Nile,
    like a river flooding its banks.
Egypt said, ‘I will rise and cover the world;
    I will destroy cities and the people who live there.
⁹ Command the horses to go
    and the chariots to roll!
Send out the soldiers:
    men from Ethiopia^[a] and Libya, carrying shields,
    and skilled archers from Lydia.’”