Jer 46
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The word of YHWH which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
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Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco 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.
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Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
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Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish
the spears, put on the coats of mail.
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Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty
ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side,
says YHWH.
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Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river
Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
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Who is this that rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
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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
thereof.
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Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and
Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.
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For that day is [a day] of the Lord, YHWH 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, YHWH of hosts, has a sacrifice in the
north country by the river Euphrates.
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Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many
medicines; there is no healing for you.
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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.
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The word that YHWH spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
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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.
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Why are your strong ones swept away? they stood not, because YHWH did drive them.
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He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one 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.
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They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time
pass by.
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As I live, says the King, whose name is YHWH of hosts, surely like Tabor among the
mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
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O you daughter that dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis
shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
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Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
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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 did not stand: for the day of their
calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
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Its sound shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and
come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
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They shall cut down her forest, says YHWH, though it cannot be searched; because they
are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
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The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand
of the people of the north.
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YHWH 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 them that trust in him:
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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 afterwards
it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says YHWH.
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But fear not you, O Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, O 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.
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Fear not you, O Jacob my servant, says YHWH; 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 wise leave you unpunished.