The word
of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Gentiles;
02 Against Egypt, against the army of
Pharaohnecho 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.
03 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near
to battle.
04 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen,
and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the
spears, and put on the brigandines.
05 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned
away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down,
and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear
was round about, saith the Lord.
06 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty
man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward
the north by the river Euphrates.
07 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose
waters are moved as the rivers?
08 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters
are 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.
09 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and
let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and
the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the
Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
10 For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his
adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it
shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood:
for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the
north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin,
the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use
many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy
cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath
stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen
both together.
13 The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the
prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol,
and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye,
Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall
devour round about thee.
15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood
not, because the Lord did drive them.
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16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell 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 did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is
but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the
Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the
mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he
come.
19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish
thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be
waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but
destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her
like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned
back, and are fled away together: they did not
stand, because the day of their calamity was come
upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22 The voice thereof shall go like a 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 the
Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they
are more than the grasshoppers, and are
innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she
shall be delivered into the hand of the people of
the north.
25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith;
Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and
Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their
kings; even Pharaoh, and all 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 afterward it shall be
inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.
27 But 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.
28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith 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.
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