Jeremiah 46–51

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet ^aagainst the Gentiles; ²against Egypt, against the army of ^bPharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in ^cCarchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote ^din the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

^3eOrder ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

^4fHarness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen,

And stand forth with your helmets;

^ffFurbish the spears, and put on ^gthe brigandines.

⁵Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back?

And their mighty ones are beaten down,

And are fled apace, and ^hlook not back:

For ⁱfear was round about, saith the Lord.

⁶Let not ^kthe swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape;

^lThey shall stumble, and fall toward the north ^mby the river Euphrates.

⁷Who is this ⁿthat cometh up as ^oa flood,

Whose waters ^pare moved as the rivers?

⁸Egypt ⁿriseth up like ^oa flood,

And his waters ^qare 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.

⁹Come up, ye horses; and ^rrage, ye chariots;

And let the mighty men come forth;

The Ethiopians and ^stthe Libyans, that handle the shield;

And ^stthe Lydians, ^tthat handle and ^ubend the bow.

^10vFor this is the day of the Lord God of hosts,

^wA day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries:

And ^xthe sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and ^ymade drunk with their blood:

For the Lord God of hosts ^zhath a sacrifice

^aIn the north country by the river Euphrates.

¹¹Go up into Gilead, and ^btake ^bbalm,

^cO virgin, the daughter of Egypt:

In vain shalt thou use many medicines;

For ^dthou shalt not be cured.

¹²The nations have heard of thy shame,

And thy ^ecry hath filled the land:

For ^fthe mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,

And ^fthey are fallen both together.

¹³The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how ^gNebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

¹⁴Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in ^hMigdol,

And publish in ⁱNoph and in ^kTahpanhes:

Say ye, ^lStand fast, and prepare thee;

For ^mthe sword shall devour round about thee.

¹⁵Why are thy ⁿvaliant men ^oswept away?

They stood not, because the Lord did drive them.

^16fHe made many to fall,

^fpYea, one fell upon another:

And they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people,

And to the land of our nativity,

^qFrom the oppressing sword.

¹⁷They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but ^ra noise;

^sHe hath passed the time appointed.

^18tAs I live, ^usaith the King,

^uvWhose name is the Lord of hosts,

Surely as ^wTabor is among the mountains,

And as ^xCarmel by the sea, so shall he come.

¹⁹O ^ythou daughter dwelling in Egypt,

Furnish thyself ^zto go into captivity:

For ⁱNoph ^ashall be waste

And desolate ^bwithout an inhabitant.

²⁰Egypt is like a very fair ^cheifer,

But destruction cometh; it cometh ^dout of the north.

²¹Also ^eher hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks;

For they also ^fare turned back, and are fled away together; they did not stand,

Because ^ghthe day of their calamity was come upon them, and ^hthe time ⁱof their visitation.

^22kThe voice thereof shall go ^llike a serpent;

For they shall march with an army,

And come against her with axes, ^mas hewers of wood.

^23mThey shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord,

Though ⁿit cannot be searched;

Because they are more than ^othe grasshoppers,

And are innumerable.

²⁴The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded;

She shall be delivered into the hand of the people of ^dthe north.

²⁵The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith;

Behold, I will punish the ^emultitude of ^fNo,

And Pharaoh, and Egypt, ^gwith their gods, and their kings;

Even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:

²⁶And ^hI 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 ⁱafterwards it shall be inhabited,

As in ^kthe days of old, saith the Lord.

^27lBut 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.

²⁸Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant,

^lSaith 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.

XLVII.The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet ^aagainst the Philistines, ^bbefore that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

²Thus saith the Lord;

Behold, ^cwaters rise up ^dout of the north,

And shall be an overflowing flood,

And shall overflow the land, and all that is therein;

The city, and them that dwell therein:

Then the men shall cry,

And all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

³At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of ^ehis strong horses,

At ^fthe rushing of his chariots,

And at the rumbling of his wheels,

The fathers shall not ^glook back to their children

For feebleness of hands;

⁴Because of the day that cometh to spoil all ^hthe Philistines,

And to cut off from ^hiTyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth:

For the Lord will spoil the Philistines,

^kThe remnant of the country of ^lCaphtor.

^5mBaldness is come upon Gaza;

ⁿAshkelon ^ois cut off with the remnant of their valley:

How long wilt thou ^pcut thyself?

⁶O ^qthou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet?

Put up thyself into ^qthy scabbard, ^rrest, and ^sbe still.

⁷How can it be quiet, seeing ^tthe Lord hath given it a charge

Against ⁿAshkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he ^uappointed it.

XLVIII.^aAgainst Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;

Woe unto ^bNebo! for it is spoiled:

^cKiriathaim is confounded and taken:

Misgab is confounded and ^ccdismayed.

²There shall be no more praise of Moab:

In ^dHeshbon they have devised evil against it;

Come, and let us cut it off ^efrom being a nation.

Also thou shalt be cut down, O ^fMadmen;

The sword shall pursue thee.

^3gA voice of crying shall be from ^hHoronaim,

Spoiling and great destruction.

⁴Moab is destroyed;

Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

⁵For ⁱin the going up of Luhith

Continual weeping shall go up;

For ⁱin the going down of ^hHoronaim

The enemies have heard ^ga cry of destruction.

^6jFlee, save your lives,

And be like the heath in the wilderness.

⁷For ^kbecause thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures,

Thou shalt also be taken:

And ^lChemosh shall go forth into captivity

With ^mhis priests and his princes together.

⁸And ⁿthe spoiler shall come upon every city,

And no city shall escape:

The valley also shall perish,

And ^othe plain ⁿshall be destroyed,

As the Lord hath spoken.

^9pGive wings unto Moab,

That it may flee and get away:

For the cities thereof ^qshall be desolate,

^rWithout any to dwell therein.

^10sCursed be he that doeth ^tthe work of the Lord ^udeceitfully,

And cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

¹¹Moab ^vhath been at ease from his youth,

And he hath settled ^won his lees,

And hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,

Neither hath he gone into captivity:

Therefore his taste remained in him,

And his sent is not changed.

¹²Therefore behold, the days come, saith the Lord,

That I will send unto him ^xwanderers, that shall ^xcause him to wander,

And shall empty his vessels, and ^ybreak their ^zbottles.

¹³And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh,

As ^athe house of Israel was ashamed of ^bBeth-el their confidence.

¹⁴How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?

^15cMoab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities,

And his chosen young men ^dare gone down to the slaughter,

^eSaith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

¹⁶The calamity of Moab is near to come,

And his affliction hasteth fast.

¹⁷All ye that are about him, bemoan him;

And all ye that know his name,

^fSay, How is ^gthe strong staff broken,

And the beautiful ^hrod!

¹⁸ⁱThou daughter that dost inhabit ^kDibon,

Come down from thy glory, and ⁱsit ^lin thirst;

For ^cthe spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee,

And he shall destroy thy strong holds.

¹⁹O inhabitant of ^mAroer,

Stand by the way and ⁿespy;

Ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth,

And say, What is done?

²⁰Moab is confounded; for ^ccit is broken down:

^oHowl and cry;

Tell ye it in ^pArnon, that ^cMoab is spoiled,

²¹And judgment is come upon ^qthe plain country;

Upon Holon, and upon ^rsJahazah, and upon ^sMephaath,

²²And upon ^kDibon, and upon ^tNebo, and upon Beth-^udiblathaim,

²³And upon ^tKiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon ^vBeth-^wmeon,

²⁴And upon ^xKerioth, and upon ^yBozrah,

And upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

^25zThe horn of Moab is cut off,

And ^ahis arm is broken, saith the Lord.

^26bMake ye him drunken: ^bbfor he magnified himself against the Lord:

Moab also shall wallow ^bin his vomit,

And he also shall be ^cin derision.

²⁷For ^ccwas not Israel a derision unto thee?

^dWas he found among thieves?

For since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

²⁸O ye that dwell in Moab, ^eleave the cities, and ^fdwell in ^gthe rock,

And be ^flike ^ethe dove that ^ghmaketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.

²⁹ⁱWe have heard the pride of Moab; he is exceeding proud:

His loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

³⁰I know ⁱhis wrath, saith the Lord; but it shall not be so;

^ikHis lies shall not so effect it.

³¹Therefore ^lwill I howl for Moab,

And I will cry out ^lfor all Moab;

^mMine heart ⁿshall mourn for the men of ^oKir-heres.

^32pO vine of ^qSibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of ^rJazer:

^sThy plants are gone over the sea,

^tThey reach even to the sea of Jazer:

The spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

^33tAnd ^ujoy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab;

And ^tI have caused wine to fail from the wine presses:

^tNone shall tread with shouting;

^uTheir shouting shall be no…