Jeremiah Chapter 46

• Jeremiah 46:1
  Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah 46:2
  The LORD’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
• Jeremiah 46:3
  Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon str...
• Jeremiah 46:4
  “Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!
• Jeremiah 46:5
  Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
• Jeremiah 46:6
  Why 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 o...
• Jeremiah 46:7
  “Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.
• Jeremiah 46:8
  “Who is this who rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?
• Jeremiah 46:9
  Egypt rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and its inhabita...
• Jeremiah 46:10
  Go 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.
• Jeremiah 46:11
  For that day is of the Lord, GOD of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, ...
• Jeremiah 46:12
  Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.
• Jeremiah 46:13
  The 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.”
• Jeremiah 46:14
  The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:
• Jeremiah 46:15
  “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.’
• Jeremiah 46:16
  Why are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because the LORD pushed them.
• Jeremiah 46:17
  He 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 op...
• Jeremiah 46:18
  They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’
• Jeremiah 46:19
  “As I live,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.
• Jeremiah 46:20
  You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burned up, without inhabita...
• Jeremiah 46:21
  “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.
• Jeremiah 46:22
  Also 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, ...
• Jeremiah 46:23
  Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
• Jeremiah 46:24
  They will cut down her forest,” says the LORD, “though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
• Jeremiah 46:25
  The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed; she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.”
• Jeremiah 46:26
  The 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...
• Jeremiah 46:27
  I 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 servant...
• Jeremiah 46:28
  “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 the...
• Jeremiah 46:29
  Don’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 ...