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<t><p class="indent1">They are terrified <t><p class="indent1">And have turned back, <t><p class="indent1">And their warriors are beaten down. <t><p class="indent1">They take flight in haste <t><p class="indent1">Without looking back; <t><p class="indent1">Terror is on every side!” <t><p class="indent1">Says the LORD. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Do not let the swift man run, <t><p class="indent1">Nor the mighty man escape; <t><p class="indent1">In the north by the river Euphrates <t><p class="indent1">They have stumbled and fallen. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Who is this that rises up like the Nile [River], <t><p class="indent1">Like the rivers [in the delta of Egypt] whose waters surge about? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Egypt rises like the Nile, <t><p class="indent1">Even like the rivers whose waters surge about. <t><p class="indent1">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>He has said, “I will rise, I will cover that land; <t><p class="indent1">I will certainly destroy the city and its inhabitants.” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Charge, you horses, <t><p class="indent1">And drive like madmen, you chariots! <t><p class="indent1">Let the warriors go forward: <p class="indent1stline">Ethiopia and Put (Libya) who handle the shield, <t><p class="indent1">And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of hosts, <t><p class="indent1">A day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself on His adversaries. <t><p class="indent1">And the sword will devour and be satiated <t><p class="indent1">And drink its fill of their blood; <t><p class="indent1">For the Lord GOD of hosts has a sacrifice [like that of a great sin offering] <t><p class="indent1">In the north country by the river Euphrates. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Go up to Gilead and obtain [healing] balm, <t><p class="indent1">O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! <t><p class="indent1">In vain you use many medicines; <t><p class="indent1">For you there is no healing <i>or</i> remedy. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The nations have heard of your disgrace <i>and</i> shame, <t><p class="indent1">And your cry [of distress] has filled the earth. <t><p class="indent1">For warrior has stumbled against warrior, <t><p class="indent1">And both of them have fallen together. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt: <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Declare in Egypt and proclaim in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>Migdol, <t><p class="indent1">And proclaim in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>Memphis and in Tahpanhes; <t><p class="indent1">Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready, <t><p class="indent1">For the sword has devoured those around you.’ <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Why have your strong ones been cut down? <t><p class="indent1">They do not stand because the LORD drove them away. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“He will make many stumble <i>and</i> fall; <t><p class="indent1">Yes, they have fallen one on another. <t><p class="indent1">Then they said, ‘Arise, and let us go back <t><p class="indent1">To our own people and to the land of our birth, <t><p class="indent1">Away from the sword of the oppressor.’ <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed <i>and</i> is merely a loud noise; <t><p class="indent1">He has let the appointed time [of opportunity] pass by!’ <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“As I live,” says the King, <t><p class="indent1">Whose name is the LORD of hosts, <p class="indent1stline">“Surely like <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>Tabor among the mountains <t><p class="indent1">Or like Carmel by the sea, <t><p class="indent1">So shall he [the great king of Babylon] come. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“O you daughter who dwells in Egypt <i>and</i> you who dwell with her, <t><p class="indent1">Prepare yourselves [with all you will need] to go into exile, <t><p class="indent1">For Memphis will become desolate; <t><p class="indent1">It will even be burned down and without inhabitant. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Egypt is a very pretty heifer, <t><p class="indent1">But a horsefly (Babylonia) is coming [against her] out of the north! <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Also her mercenaries in her army <t><p class="indent1">Are like fattened calves, <t><p class="indent1">For they too have turned back and have fled together; <t><p class="indent1">They did not stand [their ground], <t><p class="indent1">Because the day of their disaster has come upon them, <t><p class="indent1">The time of their punishment. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“The sound [of Egypt fleeing from the enemy] is like [the rustling of] an escaping serpent, <t><p class="indent1">For her foes advance with a mighty army <t><p class="indent1">And come against her like woodcutters with axes. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“They have cut down her forest,” says the LORD; <t><p class="indent1">“Certainly it will no longer be found, <t><p class="indent1">Because they (the invaders) are more numerous than locusts <t><p class="indent1">And cannot be counted. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“The Daughter of Egypt has been shamed, <t><p class="indent1">Given over to the power of the people of the north [the Chaldeans of Babylonia].” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I am going to punish Amon [chief god of the sacred city] of Thebes [the capital of Upper Egypt], and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings--even Pharaoh and those who put their trust in him [as a shield against Babylon]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I will put them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants. Afterward Egypt will be <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[g]</a></span>inhabited as in the days of old,” says the LORD. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“But as for you, do not fear, O My servant Jacob, <t><p class="indent1">Nor be dismayed, O Israel! <t><p class="indent1">For behold, I will save you from [your captivity in] a distant <i>land</i>, <t><p class="indent1">And your descendants from the land of their exile; <t><p class="indent1">And Jacob will return and be quiet and secure, <t><p class="indent1">And no one will make him afraid. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“Do not fear, O Jacob My servant,” says the LORD, <p class="indent1stline">“For I am with you. <t><p class="indent1">For I will make a full <i>and</i> complete end of all the nations <t><p class="indent1">To which I have driven you; <t><p class="indent1">Yet I will not make a full end of you. <t><p class="indent1">But I will discipline <i>and</i> correct you appropriately <t><p class="indent1">And by no means will I declare you guiltless <i>or</i> leave you unpunished.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> This stunning defeat by the Babylonian army cost Egypt all of its lands west of the Euphrates.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> In ancient warfare these shields usually were round, worn on the forearm and used mainly as weapons with which to strike an enemy. Large, oblong shields were used to protect the entire body.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> This may be viewed as an ironic declaration by God: the Nile rises and floods Egypt providing irrigation, and God says He will do the same thing, but in a sense destroying Egypt (see v 10).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Perhaps an island in the Nile, location uncertain.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> See note 2:16.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Tabor and Carmel are landmark mountains in Israel.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[g]</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> God, through His prophets, accurately foretold the future of the prominent nations of Old Testament times, often specifying the fate of particular rulers and major cities as well. The fulfillment of these prophecies is usually indicated in the textual references or the notes. The prophecies are specific; what was said of Babylon, for instance, would not have been applicable to Egypt or Ammon or Sidon. History records their fulfillment. If there was no other evidence that there is a God and that the Bible is inspired by Him, the fulfillment of prophecy in history should be sufficient proof for anyone capable of thinking it through. 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