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chapter 46
1
The
word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the Gentiles,
2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharao Nechao king
of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Charcamis, whom Nabuchodonosor
the king of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias
king of Juda.
3 Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to
battle.
4 Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand
forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.
5 What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning
their backs, their valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they looked not
back: terror was round about, saith the Lord.
6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the strong think to
escape: they are overthrown, and fallen down, towards the north by the river
Euphrates.
7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his
streams swell like those of rivers ?
8 Egypt riseth up like a hood, and the waves thereof
shall be moved as rivers, and he shall say: I will go up and will cover the
earth: I will destroy the city, and its inhabitants.
9 Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let
the valiant men come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans that hold the shield,
and the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows.
10 For this is the day of the Lord the God of hosts, a
day of vengeance, that he may revenge himself of his enemies: the sword shall
devour, and shall be filled, and shall be drunk with their blood: for there is
a sacrifice of the Lord God of hosts in the north country, by the river
Euphrates.
11 Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter
of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.
12 The nations have heard of thy disgrace, and thy
howling hath filled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong,
and both are fallen together.
13 The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias the prophet,
how Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:
14 Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and
let it be known in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare
thyself: for the sword shall devour all round about thee.
15 Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood
not: because the Lord hath overthrown them.
16 He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath
fallen upon another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own
people, and to the land our nativity, from the sword of the dove.
17 Call ye the name of Pharao king Egypt, a tumult time
hath brought.
18 As I live, (saith the King, whose name is the Lord
of hosts,) as Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall
he come.
19 Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter
inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken
and uninhabited.
20 Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there
shall come from the north one that shall goad her.
21 Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her,
like fatted calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could
not stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of their
visitation.
22 Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall
hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of
wood.
23 They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which
cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.
24 The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered
into the hand of the people of the north.
25 The Lord of hosts the God of Israel hath said:
Behold I will visit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon
Egypt, and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, upon them that
trust in him.
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of them that
seek their lives, into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the
hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of
old, saith the Lord.
27 And thou my servant Jacob, fear not and be not thou
dismayed, O Israel: for behold I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed out
of the ]and of thy captivity: and Jacob shall return and be at rest, and
prosper: and there shall be none to terrify him.
28 And thou, my servant Jacob, fear not, saith the
Lord: because I am with thee, for I will consume all the nations to which I
have cast thee out: but thee I will not consume, but I will correct thee in
judgment, neither will I spare thee as if thou wert innocent.
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