Jeremiah 46:2–12

²To ^aEgypt, concerning the army of ^bPharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at ^cCarchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the ^dfourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

³“^aLine up the shield and ¹buckler,

And draw near for the battle!

⁴“Harness the horses,

And ¹mount the steeds,

And take your stand with helmets on!

^aPolish the spears,

Put on the ^bscale-armor!

⁵“Why have I seen it?

They are terrified,

They are ^adrawing back,

And their ^bmighty men are defeated

And have taken refuge in flight,

Without facing back;

^1cTerror is on every side!”

Declares the Lord.

⁶Let not the ^aswift man flee,

Nor the mighty man escape;

In the north beside the river Euphrates

They have ^bstumbled and fallen.

⁷Who is this that ^arises like the Nile,

Like the rivers whose waters surge about?

⁸Egypt rises like the Nile,

Even like the rivers whose waters surge about;

And He has said, “I will ^arise and cover that land;

I will surely ^bdestroy the city and its inhabitants.”

⁹Go up, you horses, and ^1adrive madly, you chariots,

That the mighty men may ²march forward:

Ethiopia and ^3bPut, that handle the shield,

And the ^4cLydians, that handle and bend the bow.

¹⁰For ^athat day belongs to the Lord ¹God of hosts,

A day of ^bvengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes;

And the ^csword will devour and be satiated

And ²drink its fill of their blood;

For there will be a ^dslaughter for the Lord God of hosts,

In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

¹¹Go ^aup to Gilead and obtain balm,

^bO virgin daughter of Egypt!

In vain have you multiplied ¹remedies;

There is ^cno healing for you.

¹²The nations have heard of your ^ashame,

And the earth is full of your ^bcry of distress;

For one ^cwarrior has stumbled over ¹another,

And both of them have fallen down together.