The Book of Jeremiah

Jer 46:1 The word of the Lord which came to Jer-e-mi´-ah the prophet against the Gentiles;

Jer 46:2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pha´-raoh–ne´-cho king of Egypt, which was by the river Eu-phra´-tes in Car´-che-mish, which Neb-u-chadrez´-zar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Je-hoi´-a-kim the son of Jo-si´-ah king of Judah.

Jer 46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Jer 46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

Jer 46:5 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.

Jer 46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Eu-phra´-tes.

Jer 46:7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

Jer 46:8 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.

Jer 46:9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the E-thi-o´-pi-ans and the Lib´y-ans, that handle the shield; and the Lyd´-i-ans, that handle and bend the bow.

Jer 46:10 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 Eu-phra´-tes.

Jer 46:11 Go up into Gil´-e-ad, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

Jer 46:12 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.

Jer 46:13 The word that the Lord spake to Jer-e-mi´-ah the prophet, how Neb-u-chad-rez´-zar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

Jer 46:14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Mig´-dol, and publish in Noph and in Tah´-pan-hes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

Jer 46:15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them.

Jer 46:16 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.

Jer 46:17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

Jer 46:18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, Surely as Ta´-bor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

Jer 46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

Jer 46:20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

Jer 46:21 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.

Jer 46:22 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.

Jer 46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

Jer 46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

Jer 46:25 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:

Jer 46:26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Neb-u-chad-rez´-zar 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.

Jer 46:27 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.

Jer 46:28 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.