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CHAPTER 46
The word of the L
ORD
which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
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Against Egypt,
against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish,
which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah.
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Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
4
Harness the horses; and
get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with
your
helmets; furbish the spears,
and
put on the
brigandines.
5
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed
and
turned away back? and their mighty ones
are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back:
for
fear
was
round about, saith the L
ORD
.
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Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the
north by the river Euphrates.
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Who
is
this
that
cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as
the rivers?
8
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and
his
waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I
will go up,
and
will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
9
Come up,
ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans,
that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle
and
bend the bow.
10
For this
is
the day of the
Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword
shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts
hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
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Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O
virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines;
for
thou shalt not be cured.
12
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath
stumbled against the mighty,
and
they are fallen both together.
13
The word that the L
ORD
spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
should come
and
smite the land of Egypt.
14
Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish
in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round
about thee.
15
Why are thy valiant
men
swept away? they stood not, because the L
ORD
did drive
them.
16
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again
to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
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They did cry there,
Pharaoh king of Egypt
is but
a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
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As
I live, saith the King,
whose name
is
the L
ORD
of hosts, Surely as Tabor
is
among the mountains, and as Carmel by the
sea,
so
shall he come.
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O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity:
for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
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Egypt
is like
a very fair heifer,
but
destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
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Also her hired men
are
in the midst of her like
fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back,
and
are fled away together: they did not stand, because
the day of their calamity was come upon them,
and
the time of their visitation.
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The voice thereof
shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers
of wood.
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They shall cut down her forest, saith the L
ORD
, though it cannot be searched; because
they are more than the grasshoppers, and
are
innumerable.
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The daughter of Egypt shall be
confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
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The L
ORD
of hosts,
the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with
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