English Bible Presentation Sharing - Jeremiah Book, chapter 46, verse 22 in Web Version

Jeremiah 46 : 1 (WEB)

The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Jeremiah 46 : 2 (WEB)

Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

Jeremiah 46 : 3 (WEB)

Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Jeremiah 46 : 4 (WEB)

Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

Jeremiah 46 : 5 (WEB)

Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 46 : 6 (WEB)

Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

Jeremiah 46 : 7 (WEB)

Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

Jeremiah 46 : 8 (WEB)

Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it.

Jeremiah 46 : 9 (WEB)

Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

Jeremiah 46 : 10 (WEB)

For that day is a day of the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46 : 11 (WEB)

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.

Jeremiah 46 : 12 (WEB)

The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

Jeremiah 46 : 13 (WEB)

The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 46 : 14 (WEB)

Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you , Stand forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured round about you.

Jeremiah 46 : 15 (WEB)

Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, because Yahweh did drive them.

Jeremiah 46 : 16 (WEB)

He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.

Jeremiah 46 : 17 (WEB)

They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.

Jeremiah 46 : 18 (WEB)

As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

Jeremiah 46 : 19 (WEB)

You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 46 : 20 (WEB)

Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

Jeremiah 46 : 21 (WEB)

Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.

Jeremiah 46 : 22 (WEB)

The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

Jeremiah 46 : 23 (WEB)

They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

Jeremiah 46 : 24 (WEB)

The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

Jeremiah 46 : 25 (WEB)

Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:

Jeremiah 46 : 26 (WEB)

and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 46 : 27 (WEB)

But don't be afraid you, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

Jeremiah 46 : 28 (WEB)

Don't be afraid you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you: for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.