1 The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the
nations. 2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt,
which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah. 3 Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with
your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. 5 Why have I
seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are
beaten down, and have fled apace, and don’t look back: terror is on every
side, says Yahweh. 6 Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man
escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
7 Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves
like the rivers? 8 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss
themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the
earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it. 9 Go up, you
horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush
and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
10 For that day is a day of the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, a day of
vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall
devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord,
Yahweh of hosts, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do
you use many medicines; there is no healing for you. 12 The nations have
heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man
has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.
13 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.
14 Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in
Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; for the
sword has devoured round about you. 15 Why are your strong ones swept
away? they didn’t stand, because Yahweh did drive them. 16 He made many to
stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go
again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing
sword. 17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has
let the appointed time pass by. 18 As I live, says the King, whose name is
Yahweh of Hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by
the sea, so shall he come. 19 You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish
yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and
shall be burnt up, without inhabitant. 20 Egypt is a very beautiful
heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall;
for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn’t
stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their
visitation. 22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall
march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
23 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can’t be
searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered
into the hand of the people of the north. 25 Yahweh of Hosts, the God of
Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with
her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him: 26 and
I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants;
and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.
27 But don’t be afraid you, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel:
for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their
captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none
shall make him afraid. 28 Don’t be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says
Yahweh; for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations
where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will
correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.
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