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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is the message from the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2To Egypt: Concerning the army of King Pharaoh Neco of Egypt, which was encamped by the Euphrates River at Carchemish and which King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of the reign of Josiah's son Jehoiakim, king of Judah. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"Prepare buckler and shield, and advance into the battle! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Harness the horses! Riders, mount up! Take your positions with your helmets! Polish lances, and put on armor! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Why am I seeing this? They're terrified, they have turned back. Their warriors are crushed, and they take flight. They don't look back. Terror is on every side," declares the LORD. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"The swift cannot flee, nor can the strong escape. In the north, beside the Euphrates River, they stumble and fall. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Egypt is rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He says, 'I'll rise and cover the land. I'll destroy the city and its inhabitants.' |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Horses, get up! Chariots, drive furiously! Let the warriors go forward, Ethiopia and Put, who carry shields, and the Lydians who handle and bend the bow. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10That day belongs to the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. It is a day of vengeance to take vengeance on his foes. The sword will devour and be satisfied, and will drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north, by the Euphrates river. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Go up to Gilead and get balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you multiply remedies, but there is no healing for you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The nations have heard of your disgrace, and your cry of distress fills the earth. Indeed, one warrior stumbles over another, and both of them fall down together." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13This is the message that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to conquer the land of Egypt. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Announce in Egypt, proclaim in Migdol. Proclaim also in Memphis and Tahpanhes. Say, 'Take your positions and be ready, for the sword will devour all around you.' |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Why are your warriors prostrate? They don't stand because the LORD has brought them down. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They repeatedly stumble and fall. They say to each other, 'Get up! Let's go back to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressor's sword.' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17There they'll cry out, 'Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is just a big noise. He has let the appointed time pass by.' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18As certainly as I'm alive and living," declares the King, whose name is the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "Indeed, one will come like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Prepare your baggage for exile, daughter living in Egypt, for Memphis will become a desolate place. It will become a ruin without inhabitant. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Egypt is a beautiful calf, but a horsefly from the north is surely coming. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Even the mercenary troops in her ranks are like a fattened calf. They too will turn around, and will flee together. They won't stand, for the day of their disaster is coming on them, the time of their punishment. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Her cry will be like that of a fleeing serpent when they come in strength. They're coming to her with axes like woodcutters. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23They'll cut down her forest, though it's impenetrable," declares the LORD, "for they're more numerous than locusts, and there are too many of them to count. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame, she will be given into the hands of the people from the north." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel says, "Look, I'm going to punish Amon of Thebes, Pharaoh, Egypt, its gods and its kings, Pharaoh, and those who trust in him. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I'll give them to those who are seeking their lives and to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his officers. Then afterwards, Egypt will be inhabited as in times past," declares the LORD. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"As for you, my servant Jacob, don't be afraid, and Israel, don't be dismayed. For I'll deliver you from a distant place, and your descendants from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return. He will be undisturbed and secure, and no one will cause him to fear. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"As for you, my servant Jacob, don't be afraid, and Israel, don't be dismayed," declares the LORD, "for I am with you. Indeed, I'll make an end of all the nations where I scattered you; but I won't make an end of you! I'll discipline you justly, but I'll certainly not leave you unpunished." |
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