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Jeremiah
Chapter
46
1
The word of the Jehovah/God
which
came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; 2
Against
Egypt,
against
the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt,
which
was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish,
which
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
smote
in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.
3 Order you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
4
Harness the horses. And get up, you horsemen,
and
stand forth with your helmets.
Furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back?
And
their mighty ones are beaten down,
and
are fled apace,
and
look not back.
For fear was round about, said the Jehovah/God.
6
Let not the swift flee away,
nor
the mighty man escape.
They
shall stumble,
and
fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
7
Who is this that cometh up as a flood,
whose
waters are moved as the rivers?
8
Egypt rises up like a flood,
and
his waters are moved like the rivers.
And he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth.
I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
9 Come up, you horses. And rage, you chariots.
And let the mighty men come forth.
The
Ethiopians and the Libyans,
who
handle the shield.
And the Lydians, who handle and bend the bow.
10
For this is the day
of
the Jehovah/God God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge
him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be
satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Jehovah/God God of
hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11
Go up into Gilead,
and
take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt.
In vain shall you use many medicines.
For you shall not be cured.
12
The nations have heard of your shame,
and
your cry has filled the land.
For
the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty,
and
they are fallen both together.
13
The word that the Jehovah/God spoke to Jeremiah the prophet,
how
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
should
come and smite the land of Egypt.
14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
15 Why are your valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Jehovah/God did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
18 As I live, said the King, whose name is the Jehovah/God of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 O you daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23 They shall cut down her forest, said the Jehovah/God, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 The Jehovah/God of hosts, the God of Israel, said; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, said the Jehovah/God.
27 But fear not you, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar off, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28 Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, said the Jehovah/God: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure; yet will I not leave you wholly unpunished.
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