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<p class="indent1stline"> They are terrified, <p class="indent2"> they are retreating; <p class="indent1"> their warriors are defeated, <p class="indent2"> they flee in haste without looking back; <p class="indent2"> terror is on every side!” <p class="selah"> declares the LORD. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“The swift cannot flee, <p class="indent2"> and the warrior cannot escape! <p class="indent1"> In the north by the River Euphrates <p class="indent2"> they stumble and fall. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Who is this, rising like the Nile, <p class="indent2"> like rivers whose waters churn? <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Egypt rises like the Nile, <p class="indent2"> and its waters churn like rivers, <p class="indent1"> boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; <p class="indent2"> I will destroy the cities and their people.’ <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! <p class="indent2"> Let the warriors come forth—<p class="indent1"> Cush<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> and Put carrying their shields, <p class="indent2"> men of Lydia drawing the bow. <A name="11"></a><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, <p class="indent2"> a day of vengeance against His foes. <p class="indent1"> The sword will devour until it is satisfied, <p class="indent2"> until it is quenched with their blood. <p class="indent1"> For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice <p class="indent2"> in the land of the north by the River Euphrates. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Go up to Gilead for balm, <p class="indent2"> O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! <p class="indent1"> In vain you try many remedies, <p class="indent2"> but for you there is no healing. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The nations have heard of your shame, <p class="indent2"> and your outcry fills the earth, <p class="indent1"> because warrior stumbles over warrior <p class="indent2"> and both of them have fallen together.” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt: <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; <p class="indent2"> proclaim it in Memphis<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> and Tahpanhes: <p class="indent1">‘Take your positions and prepare yourself, <p class="indent2"> for the sword devours those around you.’ <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Why have your warriors been laid low? <p class="indent2"> They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They continue to stumble; <p class="indent2"> indeed, they have fallen over one another. <p class="indent1"> They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people <p class="indent2"> and to the land of our birth, <p class="indent2"> away from the sword of the oppressor.’ <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>There they will cry out: <p class="indent2">‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; <p class="indent2"> he has let the appointed time pass him by.’ <A name="19"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As surely as I live, declares the King, <p class="indent2"> whose name is the LORD of Hosts, <p class="indent1"> there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains <p class="indent2"> and like Carmel by the sea. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Pack your bags for exile, <p class="indent2"> O daughter dwelling in Egypt! <p class="indent1"> For Memphis will be laid waste, <p class="indent2"> destroyed and uninhabited. <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Egypt is a beautiful heifer, <p class="indent2"> but a gadfly from the north is coming against her. <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Even the mercenaries among her <p class="indent2"> are like fattened calves. <p class="indent1"> They too will turn back; <p class="indent2"> together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, <p class="indent1"> for the day of calamity is coming upon them—<p class="indent2"> the time of their punishment. <A name="23"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <p class="indent2"> for the enemy will advance in force; <p class="indent1"> with axes they will come against her <p class="indent2"> like woodsmen cutting down trees. <A name="24"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, <p class="indent2"> dense though it may be, <p class="indent1"> for they are more numerous than locusts; <p class="indent2"> they cannot be counted. <A name="25"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; <p class="indent2"> she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.” <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><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 about to punish Amon god of Thebes,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD. <A name="28"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, <p class="indent2"> and do not be dismayed, O Israel. <p class="indent1"> For I will surely save you out of a distant place, <p class="indent2"> your descendants from the land of their captivity! <p class="indent1"> Jacob will return to quiet and ease, <p class="indent2"> with no one to make him afraid. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD, for I am with you. <p class="indent1"> Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, <p class="indent2"> I will not completely destroy you. <p class="indent1">Yet I will discipline you justly, <p class="indent2"> and will by no means leave you unpunished.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> That is, the upper Nile region<br><span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> LXX; Hebrew <i>Noph</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 19<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Hebrew <i>nachash</i><span class="thin"> </span>; translated in most cases as <i>snake</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Hebrew <i>Amon of No</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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