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Chapter 46
1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the Gentiles,
2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Charcamis, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.
3 Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle.
4 Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.
5 What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning their backs, their valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they looked not back: terror was round about, said the Lord.
6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the strong think to escape: they are overthrown, and fallen down, towards the north by the river Euphrates.
7 Who is this that comes up as a flood: and his streams swell like those of rivers ?
8 Egypt rises up like a hood, and the waves thereof shall be moved as rivers, and he shall say: I will go up and will cover the earth: I will destroy the city, and its inhabitants.
9 Get ye up on horses, and glory in chariots, and let the valiant men come forth, the Ethiopians, and the Libyans that hold the shield, and the Lydians that take, and shoot arrows.
10 For this is the day of the Lord the God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may revenge himself of his enemies: the sword shall devour, and shall be filled, and shall be drunk with their blood: for there is a sacrifice of the Lord God of hosts in the north country, by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for you.
12 The nations have heard of your disgrace, and your howling has filled the land: for the strong has stumbled against the strong, and both are fallen together.
13 The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremias the prophet, how Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:
14 Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it be known in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare yourself: for the sword shall devour all round about you.
15 Why are your valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because the Lord has overthrown them.
16 He has multiplied them that fall, and one has fallen upon another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own people, and to the land our nativity, from the sword of the dove.
17 Call ye the name of Pharao king Egypt, a tumult time has brought.
18 As I live, (said the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
19 Furnish yourself to go into captivity, you daughter inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and uninhabited.
20 Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.
21 Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
22 Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.
23 They have cut down her forest, said the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.
24 The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25 The Lord of hosts the God of Israel has said: Behold I will visit upon the tumult of Alexandria, and upon Pharao, and upon Egypt, and upon her gods, and upon her kings, and upon Pharao, upon them that trust in him.
26 And I will deliver them into the hand of them that seek their lives, into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, said the Lord.
27 And you my servant Jacob, fear not and be not you dismayed, O Israel: for behold I will save you from afar off, and your seed out of the ]and of your captivity: and Jacob shall return and be at rest, and prosper: and there shall be none to terrify him.
28 And you, my servant Jacob, fear not, said the Lord: because I am with you, for I will consume all the nations to which I have cast you out: but you I will not consume, but I will correct you in judgment, neither will I spare you as if you were innocent.