Jeremiah 46
46
Judgment on Egypt
1The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the nations: # Jer 1:10
2Concerning Egypt, # Isa 19; Eze 29:1–32:32 about the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, # 2Ki 23:29 which was by the Euphrates River in Carchemish, # Isa 10:9 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
3Prepare the small and large shields, # Isa 21:5; Jer 51:11–12
and draw near to battle!
4Harness the horses;
mount the steeds!
Take your positions
with your helmets,
polish the spears,
put on the armor! # Jer 51:3; Eze 21:9–11
5Why have I seen them
dismayed and drawing back?
Their mighty ones are beaten down
and have taken refuge in flight,
and not looking back.
Terror is on every side! # Jer 6:25; 49:29
says the Lord.
6Let not the swift flee away,
nor the mighty man escape;
they will stumble and fall # Jer 46:12; Da 11:19
towards the north by the Euphrates River.
7Who is this that comes up as the Nile,
whose waters surge about as the rivers? # Isa 8:7–8; Jer 47:2
8Egypt rises up like the Nile,
and his waters surge about like the rivers.
And he has said, I will go up and will cover the land.
I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants.
9Come up, O horses,
and rage, O chariots!
And let the mighty men come forth:
the Cushites and the Libyans who handle the shield,
and the Lydians # Isa 66:19; Eze 27:10 who handle and bend the bow.
10For this is the day of the Lord God of Hosts,
a day of vengeance, # Joel 1:15 so that He may avenge Himself of His adversaries.
And the sword will devour;
and it will be satiated and made drunk with their blood; # Dt 32:42
for the Lord God of Hosts has a slaughter
in the north country by the Euphrates River.
11Go up into Gilead and take balm, # Jer 8:22
O virgin daughter of Egypt; # Isa 47:1
in vain you shall use many medicines,
for you will not be cured.
12The nations have heard of your shame,
and your cry has filled the land;
for the mighty man has stumbled over the mighty,
and they both have fallen together. # Isa 19:2; Na 3:8–10
Defeat of Egypt Foretold
13The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, about Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon coming to strike the land of Egypt. # Jer 43:10–13; 44:30
14Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol,
and pronounce in Memphis and in Tahpanhes; # Jer 44:1
say, “Stand fast and prepare yourself,
for the sword will devour those about you.” # Jer 46:10
15Why have your valiant men become prostrate?
They do not stand because the Lord has thrust them down. # Ps 18:14; Isa 66:15–16
16He made many to fall.
Indeed, each one has fallen upon another. # Lev 26:36–37
Then they said, “Arise and let us go back
to our own people and to the land of our birth, # Jer 51:9
away from the oppressing sword.”
17They cried there,
“Pharaoh king of Egypt is a tumult.
He has let the time appointed pass by!” # Ex 15:9; Isa 19:11–16
18As I live, says the King
whose name is the Lord of Hosts, # Jer 48:15
surely as Tabor # Jos 19:22 is among the mountains,
and as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.
19O daughter dwelling in Egypt,
prepare your baggage for captivity, # Isa 20:4
for Memphis will become desolate,
it will even be burned down without an inhabitant.
20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, # Hos 10:11
but destruction comes,
it comes out of the north. # Jer 47:2
21Also her mercenaries are in her midst # 2Ki 7:6
like fat bulls,
for they also have turned back and have fled away together. # Jer 46:5
They did not stand their ground
because the day of their calamity has come upon them,
even the time of their punishment.
22Its sound goes along like a serpent, # Isa 29:4
for they march on as an army,
and come against her with axes,
as choppers of wood. # Isa 14:8
23They have cut down her forest,
says the Lord.
Surely it will not be found any more,
even though they are now more numerous than the grasshoppers,
and are innumerable. # Jdg 6:5; 7:12
24The daughter of Egypt has been humiliated;
she has been delivered into the hand of the people of the north. # Jer 1:15
25The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings, # Ex 12:12 even Pharaoh and all those who trust in him. # Isa 20:5–6 26And I shall deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon # Jer 44:30; Eze 32:11 and into the hand of his servants. But afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the Lord.
God Will Save Israel
27But do not fear, O My servant Jacob,
and do not be dismayed, O Israel.
For behold, I will save you from afar off,
and your seed from the land of their captivity; # Isa 43:5; Jer 30:10–11
and Jacob shall return and be in rest and at ease,
and no one shall make him afraid.
28Do not fear, O Jacob My servant,
says the Lord, for I am with you;
for I will make a full end of all the nations
where I have driven you.
However, I will not make a full end of you, # Jer 4:27; 10:24
but correct you in measure,
and I will not leave you wholly unpunished.
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