46:1 In the beginning of the reign of king
Sedekias, there came this word concerning Aelam.
46:2 FOR EGYPT, AGAINST THE POWER OF PHARAO NECHAO KING OF EGYPT, who was by
the river Euphrates in Charmis, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon smote in
the fourth year of Joakim king of Juda.
46:3 Take up arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;
46:4 and harness the horses: mount, ye horsemen, and stand ready in your
helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breast-plates.
46:5 Why do they fear, and turn back? even because their mighty men shall be
slain: they have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not rallied,
saith the Lord.
46:6 Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north:
the [forces] at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.
46:7 Who is this [that] shall come up as a river, and as rivers roll [their]
waves?
46:8 The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river: and he said, I will go
up, and will cover the earth, and will destroy the dwellers in it.
46:9 Mount ye the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, ye warriors of the
Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, ye Lydians, bend the
bow.
46:10 And that day [shall be] to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to
take vengeance on his enemies: and the sword of the Lord shall devour, and
be glutted, and be drunken with their blood: for the Lord [has] a sacrifice
from the land of the north at the river Euphrates.
46:11 Go up to Galaad, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in
vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no help in thee.
46:12 The nations have heard thy voice, and the land has been filled with
thy cry: for the warriors have fainted fighting one against another, [and]
both are fallen together.
46:13 THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE by Jeremias, concerning the coming of
the king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt.
46:14 Proclaim [it] at Magdol, and declare [it] at Memphis: say ye, Stand
up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured thy yew-tree.
46:15 Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained;
for the Lord has utterly weakened him.
46:16 And thy multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one said to his
neighbour, Let us arise, and return into our country to our people, from the
Grecian sword.
46:17 Call ye the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, Saon esbeie moed.
46:18 [As] I live, saith the Lord God, he shall come as Itabyrion among the
mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.
46:19 O daughter of Egypt dwelling [at home], prepare thee stuff for
removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe,
because there are no inhabitants in it.
46:20 Egypt is a fair heifer, [but] destruction from the north is come upon
her.
46:21 Also her hired [soldiers] in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed
in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord: they stood not,
for the day of destruction was come upon them, and the time of their
retribution.
46:22 Their voice is as [that] of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the
sand; they shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.
46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for [their number]
cannot at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and
they are innumerable.
46:24 The daughter of Egypt is confounded; she is delivered into the hands
of a people from the north.
46:25 Behold, I [will] avenge Ammon her son upon Pharao, and upon them that
trust in him.
46:26
46:27 But fear not thou, my servant Jacob, neither be thou alarmed, Israel:
for, behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and be at ease, and sleep, and there shall be no one
to trouble him.
46:28 Fear not thou, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; for I am with thee:
she [that was] without fear and in luxury, has been delivered up: for I will
make a full end of every nation among whom I have thrust thee forth; but I
will not cause thee to fail: yet will I chastise thee in the way of
judgment, and will not hold thee entirely guiltless. |
46:1 The word of the LORD which came to
Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
46:2 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.
46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your
helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
46:5 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.
46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall
stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
46:7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the
rivers?
46:8 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.
46:9 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.
46:10 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.
46:11 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.
46:12 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.
46:13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
46:14 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.
46:15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD
did drive them.
46:16 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.
46:17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath
passed the time appointed.
46:18 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.
46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into
captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
46:20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh
out of the north.
46:21 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.
46:22 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.
46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be
searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into
the hand of the people of the north.
46:25 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:
46:26 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.
46:27 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.
46:28 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. |