Jeremiah Chapter 46 Back Next{46:1} The word of Yahweh which came to
Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
{46:2} Of
Egypt: concerning the
army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river
Euphrates in
Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon struck in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of
Judah.
{46:3} Prepare the
buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!
{46:4}
Harness the
horses, and get up, you
horsemen, and stand forth with your
helmets; furbish the spears, put on the
coats of mail.
{46:5} Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.
{46:6} Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
{46:7} Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
{46:8} Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the
earth; I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.
{46:9} Go up, you horses; and rage, you
chariots; and let the mighty men go forth:
Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the
Ludim, who handle and bend the
bow.
{46:10} For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall
drink its fill of their
blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
{46:11} Go up into Gilead, and take
balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.
{46:12} The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.
{46:13} The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.
{46:14} Declare in Egypt, and publish in
Migdol, and publish in
Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand forth, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.
{46:15} Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, because Yahweh pushed them.
{46:16} He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.
{46:17} They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.
{46:18} As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like
Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
{46:19} You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into
captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
{46:20} Egypt is a very beautiful
heifer; but destruction out of the north has come, it has come.
{46:21} Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.
{46:22} The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with
axes, as wood cutters.
{46:23} They shall cut down her
forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the
locusts, and are innumerable.
{46:24} The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
{46:25} Yahweh of Armies, the God of
Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:
{46:26} and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.
{46:27} But don't you be afraid,
Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
{46:28} Don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
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