Jeremiah 46:13 - 46:26 - Legacy Standard Bible

Jeremiah 46:13 - 46:26

13 This is the message which Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike down the land of Egypt: 14

“Declare in Egypt and cause it to be heard in Migdol;

Cause it to be heard also in Memphis and Tahpanhes;

Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready,

For the sword has devoured those around you.’

Why are your mighty ones thrown down?

They do not stand because Yahweh has thrust them down.

They have repeatedly stumbled;

Indeed, they have fallen one against another.

Then they said, ‘Rise up! And let us return

To our own people and land of our birth

Away from the sword of the oppressor.’

They called out there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a rumbling;

He has let the appointed time pass by!’

As I live,” declares the King

Whose name is Yahweh of hosts,

“Surely one shall come who looms up like Tabor among the mountains,

Or like Carmel by the sea.

Make your baggage ready for exile,

O inhabitant of the daughter of Egypt,

For Memphis will become a desolation;

It will even be turned into ruin and without inhabitants.

Egypt is a pretty heifer,

But a horsefly is coming from the north—it is coming!

Also her mercenaries in her midst

Are like fattened calves,

For even they have turned back and have fled away together;

They did not stand their ground.

For the day of their disaster has come upon them,

The time of their punishment.

Its sound moves along like a serpent;

For they move on like a military force

And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

They have cut down her forest,” declares Yahweh;

“Surely it will no longer be searched out,

Even though they are now more numerous than locusts

And are without number.

The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame,

Given over to the hand of the people of the north.”

25 Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him. 26 I shall give them into the hand of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards, however, it will be dwelt in like in the days of old,” declares Yahweh.