الإصحَاحُ
السَّادِسُ والأَرْبَعُونَ
Chapter
46
1
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
2
Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho 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.
3
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
4
Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets;
furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
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.
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Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and
fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
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Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
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.
9
Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth;
the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that
handle and bend the bow.
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 Euphrates.
11
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain
shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
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.
13
The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14
Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in
Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour
round about thee.
15
Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive
them.
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.
17
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the
time appointed.
18
As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is
among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for
Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of
the north.
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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.
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.
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.
24
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand
of the people of the north.
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:
26
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 afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
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.
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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.
