Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 46
Chapter 46 of Jeremiah
and advance for battle!
mount, O horsemen!
Take your stations with your helmets,
polish your spears,
put on your coats of mail!
They are dismayed
and have turned backward.
Their warriors are beaten down,
and have fled in haste;
they look not back—
terror on every side!
says the LORD.
nor the warrior escape;
in the north by the river Euphra′tes
they have stumbled and fallen.
like rivers whose waters surge?
like rivers whose waters surge.
He said, I will rise, I will cover the earth,
I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.
and rage, O chariots!
Let the warriors go forth:
men of Ethiopia and Put who handle the shield,
men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.
a day of vengeance,
to avenge himself on his foes.
The sword shall devour and be sated,
and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice
in the north country by the river Euphra′tes.
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
in vain you have used many medicines;
there is no healing for you.
and the earth is full of your cry;
for warrior has stumbled against warrior;
they have both fallen together.”
proclaim in Memphis and Tah′panhes;
Say, ‘Stand ready and be prepared,
for the sword shall devour round about you.’
Why did not your bull stand?
Because the LORD thrust him down.
and they said one to another,
‘Arise, and let us go back to our own people
and to the land of our birth,
because of the sword of the oppressor.’
‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.’
whose name is the LORD of hosts,
like Tabor among the mountains,
and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.
O inhabitants of Egypt!
For Memphis shall become a waste,
a ruin, without inhabitant.
but a gadfly from the north has come upon her.
are like fatted calves;
yea, they have turned and fled together,
they did not stand;
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
the time of their punishment.
for her enemies march in force,
and come against her with axes,
like those who fell trees.
says the LORD,
though it is impenetrable,
because they are more numerous than locusts;
they are without number.
she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north.”
nor be dismayed, O Israel;
for lo, I will save you from afar,
and your offspring from the land of their captivity.
Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease,
and none shall make him afraid.
says the LORD,
for I am with you.
I will make a full end of all the nations
to which I have driven you,
but of you I will not make a full end.
I will chasten you in just measure,
and I will by no means leave you unpunished.”FOOTNOTES
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