Jer 26
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In the beginning of the reign of king Sedekias, there came this word concerning Ælam.
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FOR EGYPT, AGAINST THE POWER OF PHARAO NECHAO KING OF EGYPT, who was by the river
Euphrates in Charmis, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon smote in the fourth year
of Joakim king of Juda.
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Take up Or, shields arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;
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and harness the horses: mount, you horsemen, and stand ready in your helmets; advance
the spears, and put on your breast-plates.
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Why do they fear, and turn back? even because their mighty men shall be slain: they
have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not Or, lit. returned rallied, says the Lord.
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Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north: the forces
at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.
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Who is this that shall come up as a river, and as rivers roll their Gr. water waves?
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The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river: and he said, I will go up, and will
cover the earth, and will destroy the dwellers in it.
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Mount you the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, you warriors of the Ethiopians,
and Libyans armed with See verse 3; oplon apparently means shield in LXX shields; and mount, you Lydians, bend the bow.
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And that day shall be to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to take vengeance on
his enemies: and the sword of the Lord shall devour, and be glutted, and be drunken
with their blood: for the Lord has a sacrifice from the land of the north at the river
Euphrates.
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Go up to Galaad, and take Or, balsam balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain have you multiplied your medicines;
there is no help in you.
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The nations have heard your voice, and the land has been filled with your cry: for
the warriors have fainted fighting one against another, and both are fallen together.
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THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE by Jeremias, concerning the coming of the king of Babylon
to smite the land of Egypt.
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Proclaim it at Magdol, and declare it at Memphis: say you, Stand up, and prepare;
for the sword has devoured your yew-tree.
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Wherefore has Apis fled from you? your choice calf has not remained; for the Lord
has Gr. paralyzed utterly weakened him.
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And your multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one said to his neighbour, Let
us arise, and return into our country to our people, from the Grecian sword.
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Call you the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, The Hebrew words untranslated—’a noise—he has passed the appointed time’
Saon esbeie moed.
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As I live, says the Lord God, he shall come as Itabyrion among the mountains, and
as Carmel that is on the sea.
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O daughter of Egypt dwelling at home, prepare you stuff for removing: for Memphis
shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because there are no inhabitants
in it.
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Egypt is a fair heifer, but destruction from the north is come upon her.
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Also her hired soldiers in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in her; for they
also have turned, and fled with one accord: they stood not, for the day of destruction
was come upon them, and the time of their retribution.
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Their voice is as that of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the sand; they shall
come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.
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They shall cut down her forest, says the Lord, for their number cannot at all be conjectured,
for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.
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The daughter of Egypt is confounded; she is delivered into the hands of a people from
the north.
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Behold, I will avenge See Hebrew Ammon her son upon Pharao, and upon them that trust in him.
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But fear not you, my servant Jacob, neither be you alarmed, Israel: for, behold, I
will save you from afar, and your seed from their captivity; and Jacob shall return,
and be at ease, and sleep, and there shall be no one to trouble him.
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Fear not you, my servant Jacob, says the Lord; for I am with you: she that was without
fear and in luxury, has been delivered up: for I will make a full end of every nation
among whom I have thrust you forth; but I will not cause you to fail: yet will I chastise
you in the way of judgement, and will not hold you entirely guiltless.