(KJV) Jeremiah 46¹

⥃Judgment on Egypt

[1] The word² of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against³ the Gentiles; [2] Against Egypt⁴, against the army of Pharaoh–necho⁵ king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish⁶, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the⁷ fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. [3] Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.⁸⁹ [4] Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish¹⁰ the spears, [and] put on the brigandines¹¹. [5] Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their¹² mighty ones are beaten down¹³, and are fled apace¹⁴, and look not back: [for] fear¹⁵ [was] round about, saith the Lord. [6] Let not¹⁶ the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble¹⁷, and fall toward¹⁸ the north by the river Euphrates. [7] Who¹⁹ [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood²⁰, whose waters are moved as the rivers? [8] Egypt riseth²¹ up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go²² up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. [9] Come up, ye horses; and rage²³, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians²⁴ and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians²⁵, that handle [and] bend the bow. [10] For this [is] the day²⁶ of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword²⁷ shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north²⁸ country by the river Euphrates. [11] Go up into Gilead²⁹, and take balm, O virgin³⁰, the daughter of Egypt: in vain³¹ shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured³². [12] The nations have heard³³ of thy shame, and thy cry³⁴ hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled³⁵ against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together.

[13] [¶]The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar³⁶ king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt.³⁷ [14] Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol³⁸, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand³⁹ fast, and prepare thee; for the sword⁴⁰ shall devour round about thee. [15] Why are thy⁴¹ valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the Lord⁴² did drive them. [16] He made many to fall⁴³, yea, one⁴⁴ fell upon another: and they said⁴⁵, 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, Pharaoh⁴⁶ king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. [18] [As] I live, saith⁴⁷ the King, whose name [is] the Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor⁴⁸ [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel⁴⁹ by the sea, [so] shall he come. [19] O thou⁵⁰ daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity⁵¹: for Noph⁵² shall be waste⁵³ and desolate without an inhabitant. [20] Egypt [is like] a very⁵⁴ fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh⁵⁵ out of the north. [21] Also her hired⁵⁶ men [are] in the midst of her like⁵⁷ fatted bullocks⁵⁸; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did⁵⁹ not stand, because the day⁶⁰ of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation. [22] The voice⁶¹ thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come⁶² against her with axes, as hewers of wood. [23] They shall cut⁶³ down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because⁶⁴ they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable. [24] The daughter⁶⁵ of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall⁶⁶ 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 multitude⁶⁷ of No⁶⁸, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their⁶⁹ gods, and their⁷⁰ kings; even Pharaoh, and [all⁷¹] them that trust in him: [26] And I will⁷² 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 afterward⁷³ it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.

[27] [¶]But fear⁷⁴ not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save⁷⁵ thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be⁷⁶ in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid. [28] Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I [am⁷⁷] with thee; for I will make⁷⁸ a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not⁷⁹ make a full end of thee, but correct⁸⁰ thee in measure; yet will I⁸¹ not leave thee wholly unpunished⁸².