| 1 The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning
the nations. 2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco 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 Prepare 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, put on the coats of mail. 5 Wherefore have I
seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are
beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side,
saith Jehovah. 6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape;
in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen. 7 Who
is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the
rivers? 8 Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves
like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will
destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof. 9 Go up, ye horses; and rage,
ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the
shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow. 10 For that day is
a day of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, 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, Jehovah of hosts, hath a
sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. 11 Go up into
Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many
medicines; there is no healing for thee. 12 The nations have heard of thy
shame, and the earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled
against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together. 13 The word
that Jehovah spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. 14 Declare ye in Egypt,
and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand
forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about thee.
15 Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Jehovah did
drive them. 16 He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one 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 cried there, Pharaoh
king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.
18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like
Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into
captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up,
without inhabitant. 20 Egypt is a very fair heifer; but
destruction out of the north is come, it is come. 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 did not stand: for the day of their
calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation. 22 The sound
thereof shall go like the 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 Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more
than the locusts, and are innumerable. 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be
put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the
north. 25 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will
punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even
Pharaoh, and 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 afterwards it shall be
inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah. 27 But fear not thou, O
Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee
from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall
return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28 Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; 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 I will correct thee in measure, and
will in no wise leave thee unpunished.
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