Jeremiah 45: 1 - 47: 7
| 1The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 2“The LORD, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: 3‘You said, “Woe is me now! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’ |
| 4“You shall tell him, the LORD says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land. 5Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says the LORD; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’” |
| 1The LORD’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. |
| 2Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. |
| 3“Prepare the buckler and shield, |
| and draw near to battle! |
| 4Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, |
| and stand up with your helmets. |
| Polish the spears, |
| put on the coats of mail. |
| 5Why have I seen it? |
| They are dismayed and are turned backward. |
| Their mighty ones are beaten down, |
| have fled in haste, |
| and don’t look back. |
| Terror is on every side,” |
| says the LORD. |
| 6“Don’t let the swift flee away, |
| nor the mighty man escape. |
| In the north by the river Euphrates |
| they have stumbled and fallen. |
| 7“Who is this who rises up like the Nile, |
| whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? |
| 8Egypt rises up like the Nile, |
| and his waters toss themselves like the rivers. |
| He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. |
| I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’ |
| 9Go up, you horses! |
| Rage, you chariots! |
| Let the mighty men go out: |
| Cush and Put, who handle the shield; |
| and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow. |
| 10For that day is of the Lord, the LORD of Armies, |
| a day of vengeance, |
| that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. |
| The sword will devour and be satiated, |
| and will drink its fill of their blood; |
| for the Lord, the LORD of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. |
| 11Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. |
| You use many medicines in vain. |
| There is no healing for you. |
| 12The nations have heard of your shame, |
| and the earth is full of your cry; |
| for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, |
| they both fall together.” |
| 13The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt. |
| 14“Declare in Egypt, |
| publish in Migdol, |
| and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: |
| say, ‘Stand up, and prepare; |
| for the sword has devoured around you.’ |
| 15Why are your strong ones swept away? |
| They didn’t stand, because the LORD pushed them. |
| 16He made many to stumble. |
| Yes, they fell on one another. |
| They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people, |
| and to the land of our birth, |
| from the oppressing sword.’ |
| 17They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; |
| he has let the appointed time pass by.’ |
| 18“As I live,” says the King, |
| whose name is the LORD of Armies, |
| “surely like Tabor amongst the mountains, |
| and like Carmel by the sea, |
| so he will come. |
| 19You daughter who dwells in Egypt, |
| furnish yourself to go into captivity; |
| for Memphis will become a desolation, |
| and will be burnt up, |
| without inhabitant. |
| 20“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; |
| but destruction out of the north has come. |
| It has come. |
| 21Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall; |
| for they also are turned back. |
| They have fled away together. |
| They didn’t stand, |
| for the day of their calamity has come on them, |
| the time of their visitation. |
| 22Its sound will go like the serpent; |
| for they will march with an army, |
| and come against her with axes, as wood cutters. |
| 23They will cut down her forest,” says the LORD, |
| “though it can’t be searched; |
| because they are more than the locusts, |
| and are innumerable. |
| 24The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed; |
| she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.” |
| 25The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him. 26I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old,” says the LORD. |
| 27“But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant. |
| Don’t be dismayed, Israel; |
| for, behold, I will save you from afar, |
| and your offspring from the land of their captivity. |
| Jacob will return, |
| and will be quiet and at ease. |
| No one will make him afraid. |
| 28Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says the LORD; |
| “for I am with you; |
| for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; |
| but I will not make a full end of you, |
| but I will correct you in measure, |
| and will in no way leave you unpunished.” |
| 1The LORD’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck Gaza. |
| 2The LORD says: |
| “Behold, waters rise up out of the north, |
| and will become an overflowing stream, |
| and will overflow the land and all that is therein, |
| the city and those who dwell therein. |
| The men will cry, |
| and all the inhabitants of the land will wail. |
| 3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, |
| at the rushing of his chariots, |
| at the rumbling of his wheels, |
| the fathers don’t look back to their children |
| for feebleness of hands; |
| 4because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, |
| to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; |
| for the LORD will destroy the Philistines, |
| the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. |
| 5Baldness has come on Gaza; |
| Ashkelon is brought to nothing, |
| the remnant of their valley: |
| how long will you cut yourself? |
| 6“‘You sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you are quiet? |
| Put yourself back into your scabbard; |
| rest, and be still.’ |
| 7“How can you be quiet, |
| since the LORD has given you a command? |
| Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, |
| there he has appointed it.” |
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