| Chapter
46 |
| 1 | The
word of the LORD 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 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. |
| 3 | Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to
battle. |
| 4 | Harness the
horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the
spears, and put on the brigandines. |
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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, saith the LORD. |
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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 riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved
like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will
destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. |
| 9 | Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the
mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield;
and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow. |
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10 | For this is the day of the Lord 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 Lord
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 shalt thou use many
medicines; for thou shalt not be cured. |
| 12 | The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath
filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they
are fallen both together. |
| 13 |
The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar
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. |
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15 | Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood
not, because the LORD 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. |
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17 | They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he
hath passed the time appointed. |
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18 | As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts,
Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he
come. |
| 19 | O thou 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. |
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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, saith the LORD, 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 LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; 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 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into
the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days
of old, saith the LORD. |
| 27 |
But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for,
behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy 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
thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: 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 thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee
wholly unpunished. |
