46Jeremiah 46

1The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;Select Jeremiah 46:1

2Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates in Carshemish, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.Select Jeremiah 46:2

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

4Harness the horses; and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the coats of mail.Select Jeremiah 46:4

5Why have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and look not back: [for] fear [was] on all sides, saith the LORD.Select Jeremiah 46:5

6Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape! they shall stumble, and fall towards the north by the river Euphrates.Select Jeremiah 46:6

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

8Egypt 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 its inhabitants.Select Jeremiah 46:8

9Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth: the Cushites and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians that handle [and] bend the bow.Select Jeremiah 46:9

10For 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 satiated and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.Select Jeremiah 46:10

11Go 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.Select Jeremiah 46:11

12The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they have fallen both together.Select Jeremiah 46:12

13The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt.Select Jeremiah 46:13

14Declare 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 around thee.Select Jeremiah 46:14

15Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.Select Jeremiah 46:15

16He made many to fall, yes, 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.Select Jeremiah 46:16

17They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.Select Jeremiah 46:17

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.Select Jeremiah 46:18

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

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

21Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, [and] have fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation.Select Jeremiah 46:21

22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.Select Jeremiah 46:22

23They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.Select Jeremiah 46:23

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

25The 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:Select Jeremiah 46:25

26And 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.Select Jeremiah 46:26

27But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for behold, I will save thee from afar, 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.Select Jeremiah 46:27

28Fear 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.Select Jeremiah 46:28