Jeremiah 46

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.