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given in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, the king of Judah, on the occasion of the battle of Carchemish<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> when Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, and his army were defeated beside the Euphrates River by King Nebuchadnezzar<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> of Babylon.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Prepare your shields,</p><p class="line2">and advance into battle!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Harness the horses,</p><p class="line2">and mount the stallions.</p><p class="line1">Take your positions.</p><p class="line2">Put on your helmets.</p><p class="line1">Sharpen your spears,</p><p class="line2">and prepare your armor.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But what do I see?</p><p class="line2">The Egyptian army flees in terror.</p><p class="line1">The bravest of its fighting men run</p><p class="line2">without a backward glance.</p><p class="line1">They are terrorized at every turn,”</p><p class="line2">says the LORD.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“The swiftest runners cannot flee;</p><p class="line2">the mightiest warriors cannot escape.</p><p class="line1">By the Euphrates River to the north,</p><p class="line2">they stumble and fall.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Who is this, rising like the Nile at floodtime,</p><p class="line2">overflowing all the land?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>It is the Egyptian army,</p><p class="line2">overflowing all the land,</p><p class="line1">boasting that it will cover the earth like a flood,</p><p class="line2">destroying cities and their people.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Charge, you horses and chariots;</p><p class="line2">attack, you mighty warriors of Egypt!</p><p class="line1">Come, all you allies from Ethiopia, Libya, and Lydia<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line2">who are skilled with the shield and bow!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For this is the day of the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,</p><p class="line2">a day of vengeance on his enemies.</p><p class="line1">The sword will devour until it is satisfied,</p><p class="line2">yes, until it is drunk with your blood!</p><p class="line1">The Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, will receive a sacrifice today</p><p class="line2">in the north country beside the Euphrates River.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Go up to Gilead to get medicine,</p><p class="line2">O virgin daughter of Egypt!</p><p class="line1">But your many treatments</p><p class="line2">will bring you no healing.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The nations have heard of your shame.</p><p class="line2">The earth is filled with your cries of despair.</p><p class="line1">Your mightiest warriors will run into each other</p><p class="line2">and fall down together.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the LORD gave the prophet Jeremiah this message about King Nebuchadnezzar’s plans to attack Egypt.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Shout it out in Egypt!</p><p class="line2">Publish it in the cities of Migdol, Memphis,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> and Tahpanhes!</p><p class="line1">Mobilize for battle,</p><p class="line2">for the sword will devour everyone around you.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Why have your warriors fallen?</p><p class="line2">They cannot stand, for the LORD has knocked them down.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They stumble and fall over each other</p><p class="line2">and say among themselves,</p><p class="line1">‘Come, let’s go back to our people,</p><p class="line2">to the land of our birth.</p><p class="line2">Let’s get away from the sword of the enemy!’</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>There they will say,</p><p class="line2">‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is a loudmouth</p><p class="line2">who missed his opportunity!’</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“As surely as I live,” says the King,</p><p class="line2">whose name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,</p><p class="line1">“one is coming against Egypt</p><p class="line2">who is as tall as Mount Tabor,</p><p class="line2">or as Mount Carmel by the sea!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Pack up! Get ready to leave for exile,</p><p class="line2">you citizens of Egypt!</p><p class="line1">The city of Memphis will be destroyed,</p><p class="line2">without a single inhabitant.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Egypt is as sleek as a beautiful heifer,</p><p class="line2">but a horsefly from the north is on its way!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Egypt’s mercenaries have become like fattened calves.</p><p class="line2">They, too, will turn and run,</p><p class="line1">for it is a day of great disaster for Egypt,</p><p class="line2">a time of great punishment.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Egypt flees, silent as a serpent gliding away.</p><p class="line2">The invading army marches in;</p><p class="line2">they come against her with axes like woodsmen.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They will cut down her people like trees,” says the LORD,</p><p class="line2">“for they are more numerous than locusts.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Egypt will be humiliated;</p><p class="line2">she will be handed over to people from the north.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish Amon, the god of Thebes,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> and all the other gods of Egypt. I will punish its rulers and Pharaoh, too, and all who trust in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I will hand them over to those who want them killed—to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his army. But afterward the land will recover from the ravages of war. I, the LORD, have spoken!</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“But do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant;</p><p class="line2">do not be dismayed, Israel.</p><p class="line1">For I will bring you home again from distant lands,</p><p class="line2">and your children will return from their exile.</p><p class="line1">Israel<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> will return to a life of peace and quiet,</p><p class="line2">and no one will terrorize them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/46-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant,</p><p class="line2">for I am with you,” says the LORD.</p><p class="line1">“I will completely destroy the nations to which I have exiled you,</p><p class="line2">but I will not completely destroy you.</p><p class="line1">I will discipline you, but with justice;</p><p class="line2">I cannot let you go unpunished.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">46:2a </span><span class="ft">This event occurred in 605 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><span class="ft">, during the fourth year of Jehoiakim’s reign (according to the calendar system in which the new year begins in the spring).</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">46:2b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Nebuchadrezzar,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar; also in 46:13, 26.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">46:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">from Cush, Put, and Lud.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">46:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Noph;</span><span class="ft"> also in 46:19.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">46:25 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">of No.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">46:27 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Jacob.</span><span class="ft"> See note on 5:20.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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