Jeremiah 46:13–26

Babylonia Will Strike Egypt

¹³The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon would come and ^rstrike the land of Egypt.

¹⁴“Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in ^sMigdol;

Proclaim in ⁶Noph and in ^tTahpanhes;

Say, ‘Stand fast and prepare yourselves,

For the sword devours all around you.’

¹⁵Why are your valiant men swept away?

They did not stand

Because the Lord drove them away.

¹⁶He made many fall;

Yes, ^uone fell upon another.

And they said, ‘Arise!

^vLet us go back to our own people

And to the land of our nativity

From the oppressing sword.’

¹⁷They cried there,

‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise.

He has passed by the appointed time!’

¹⁸“As I live,” says the King,

^wWhose name is the Lord of hosts,

“Surely as Tabor is among the mountains

And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.

¹⁹O ^xyou daughter dwelling in Egypt,

Prepare yourself ^yto go into captivity!

For ⁷Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

²⁰“Egypt is a very pretty ^zheifer,

But destruction comes, it comes ^afrom the north.

²¹Also her mercenaries are in her midst like ⁸fat bulls,

For they also are turned back,

They have fled away together.

They did not stand,

For ^bthe day of their calamity had come upon them,

The time of their punishment.

^22cHer noise shall go like a serpent,

For they shall march with an army

And come against her with axes,

Like those who chop wood.

²³“They shall ^dcut down her forest,” says the Lord,

“Though it cannot be searched,

Because they are innumerable,

And more numerous than ^egrasshoppers.

²⁴The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed;

She shall be delivered into the hand

Of ^fthe people of the north.”

²⁵The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring punishment on ⁹Amon of ^gNo, ¹and Pharaoh and Egypt, ^hwith their gods and their kings—Pharaoh and those who ⁱtrust in him. ^26jAnd I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of his servants. ^kAfterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old,” says the Lord.