“1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the
Gentiles; 2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho 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. 3 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 LORD. 6 Let not
the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and
fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. 7 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. 11 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 LORD 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 LORD 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. 17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is
but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. 18 [As] I live, saith
the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among
the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come. 19 O thou
daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for
Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. 20 Egypt [is
like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the
north. 21 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. 22 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. 23 They shall cut down her forest, saith
the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the
grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable. 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be
confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the
north. 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will
punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and
their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him: 26 And I
will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his
servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old,
saith the LORD. 27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not
dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy
seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in
rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid. 28 Fear thou not, O
Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make
a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not
make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not
leave thee wholly unpunished.” (Jeremiah 46:1-28 AV)