Jeremiah 46:20-22

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁰ A beautiful heifer is Egypt—
    a gadfly from the north lights upon her.
²¹ Even her mercenaries in her midst
    are like fatted calves;
they too have turned and fled together,
    they did not stand;
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
    the time of their punishment.

²² She makes a sound like a snake gliding away;
    for her enemies march in force,
and come against her with axes,
    like those who fell trees.