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Jeremiah 46:3 Context: Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!
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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Egypt rises like the Nile,<br> Even like the rivers whose waters surge about;<br> And He has said, “I will rise and cover <i>that</i> land;<br> I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants.” <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Go up, you horses, and drive madly, you chariots,<br> That the mighty men may march forward:<br> Ethiopia and Put, that handle the shield,<br> And the Lydians, that handle <i>and</i> bend the bow. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>For that day belongs to the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font> of hosts,<br> A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes;<br> And the sword will devour and be satiated<br> And drink its fill of their blood;<br> For there will be a slaughter for the Lord G<font size="1">OD</font> of hosts,<br> In the land of the north by the river Euphrates. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,<br> O virgin daughter of Egypt!<br> In vain have you multiplied remedies;<br> There is no healing for you. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>The nations have heard of your shame,<br> And the earth is full of your cry <i>of distress;</i><br> For one warrior has stumbled over another,<br> And both of them have fallen down together. <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span><i>This is</i> the message which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt: <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>“Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol,<br> Proclaim also in Memphis and Tahpanhes;<br> Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready,<br> For the sword has devoured those around you.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>“Why have your mighty ones become prostrate?<br> They do not stand because the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has thrust them down. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>“They have repeatedly stumbled;<br> Indeed, they have fallen one against another.<br> Then they said, ‘Get up! And let us go back<br> To our own people and our native land<br> Away from the sword of the oppressor.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt <i>is but</i> a big noise;<br> He has let the appointed time pass by!’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“As I live,” declares the King<br> Whose name is the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts,<br> “Surely one shall come <i>who looms up</i> like Tabor among the mountains,<br> Or like Carmel by the sea. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“Make your baggage ready for exile,<br> O daughter dwelling in Egypt,<br> For Memphis will become a desolation;<br> It will even be burned down <i>and</i> bereft of inhabitants. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“Egypt is a pretty heifer,<br> <i>But</i> a horsefly is coming from the north—it is coming! <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>“Also her mercenaries in her midst<br> Are like fattened calves,<br> For even they too have turned back <i>and</i> have fled away together;<br> They did not stand <i>their ground.</i><br> For the day of their calamity has come upon them,<br> The time of their punishment. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>“Its sound moves along like a serpent;<br> For they move on like an army<br> And come to her as woodcutters with axes. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>“They have cut down her forest,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>;<br> “Surely it will no <i>more</i> be found,<br> Even though they are <i>now</i> more numerous than locusts<br> And are without number. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>“The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame,<br> Given over to the power of the people of the north.” <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>“I shall give them over to the power of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his officers. Afterwards, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>“But as for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear,<br> Nor be dismayed, O Israel!<br> For, see, I am going to save you from afar,<br> And your descendants from the land of their captivity;<br> And Jacob will return and be undisturbed<br> And secure, with no one making <i>him</i> tremble. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/46-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>“O Jacob My servant, do not fear,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br> “For I am with you.<br> For I will make a full end of all the nations<br> Where I have driven you,<br> Yet I will not make a full end of you;<br> But I will correct you properly<br> And by no means leave you unpunished.” <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/jeremiah/46.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/jeremiah/46.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/jeremiah/46.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/jeremiah/46.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/jeremiah/46.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/jeremiah/46.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/jeremiah/46.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'Set ye in array shield and buckler, And draw nigh to battle.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_iiisargon_of_assyria_722-705.htm">Sargon of Assyria (722-705 B. C. )</a><br></span><span class="snippet">SARGON AS A WARRIOR AND AS A BUILDER. The origin of Sargon II.: the revolt of Babylon, Merodach-baladan and Elam--The kingdom of Elam from the time of the first Babylonian empire; the conquest's of Shutruh-nalkunta I.; the princes of Malamir--The first encounter of Assyria and Elam, the battle of Durilu (721 B.C.)--Revolt of Syria, Iaubidi of Hamath and Hannon of Gaza--Bocchoris and the XXIVth Egyptian dynasty; the first encounter of Assyria with Egypt, the battle of Raphia (720 B.C.). Urartu <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maspero/history_of_egypt_chaldaea_syria_babylonia_and_assyria_v_7/chapter_iiisargon_of_assyria_722-705.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">G. Maspero—</span><span class="citation2">History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_on_the_crowned_christ_of_revelation/vi_a_clearing-up_storm_in_the.htm">A Clearing-Up Storm in the Realm</a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Revelation, Chapters vi.-viii.) "God Almighty! King of nations! earth Thy footstool, heaven Thy throne! Thine the greatness, power, and glory, Thine the kingdom, Lord, alone! Life and death are in Thy keeping, and Thy will ordaineth all: From the armies of Thy heavens to an unseen insect's fall. "Reigning, guiding, all-commanding, ruling myriad worlds of light; Now exalting, now abasing, none can stay Thy hand of might! Working all things by Thy power, by the counsel of Thy will. Thou art God! <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet_talks_on_the_crowned_christ_of_revelation/vi_a_clearing-up_storm_in_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">by S. D. Gordon—</span><span class="citation2">Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The interest of the book of Jeremiah is unique. On the one hand, it is our most reliable and elaborate source for the long period of history which it covers; on the other, it presents us with prophecy in its most intensely human phase, manifesting itself through a strangely attractive personality that was subject to like doubts and passions with ourselves. At his call, in 626 B.C., he was young and inexperienced, i. 6, so that he cannot have been born earlier than 650. The political and religious <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction_to_the_old_testament/jeremiah.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Edgar McFadyen—</span><span class="citation2">Introduction to the Old Testament</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/46-3.htm">Jeremiah 46:3 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/46-3.htm">Jeremiah 46:3 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/jeremiah/46-3.htm">Jeremiah 46:3 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/46-3.htm">Jeremiah 46:3 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/46-3.htm">Jeremiah 46:3 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/46-3.htm">Jeremiah 46:3 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/jeremiah/46-3.htm">Jeremiah 46:3 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/46-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 46:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 46:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/46-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 46:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 46:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/jeremiah/46-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 120 x 600 new */ google_ad_slot = "2486977537"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-3753401421161123"; /* 200 x 200 Parallel Bible */ google_ad_slot = "7676643937"; google_ad_width = 200; google_ad_height = 200; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>