# Jeremiah 46 đ
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## đ Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### Prophecies Against Foreign Nations
[[#Verse 01.]] This was the Lordâs message to the prophet Jeremiah about the nations.
### The Prophecy about Egyptâs Defeat at Carchemish
[[#Verse 02.]] He spoke about Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was encamped along the Euphrates River at Carchemish. Now this was the army that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah:
[[#Verse 03.]]Â âFall into ranks with your shields ready!
Prepare to march into battle!
[[#Verse 04.]]Â Harness the horses to the chariots;
mount your horses!
Take your positions with helmets on;
ready your spears!
Put on the armor!
[[#Verse 05.]]Â âWhat do I see?
The soldiers are frightened.
They are retreating.
They are being scattered.
They have fled for refuge
without looking back.
Terror is all around them,â says the Lord.
[[#Verse 06.]]Â But even the swiftest cannot get away.
Even the strongest cannot escape.
There in the north by the Euphrates River
they have stumbled and fallen in defeat.
[[#Verse 07.]]Â Who is this that rises like the Nile,
like its streams turbulent at flood stage?
[[#Verse 08.]]Â Egypt rises like the Nile,
like its streams turbulent at flood stage.
Egypt said, âI will arise and cover the earth.
I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.â
[[#Verse 09.]] Go ahead and charge into battle, you horsemen!
Drive furiously, you charioteers!
Let the soldiers march out into battle,
those from Ethiopia and Libya who carry shields,
and those from Lydia who are armed with the bow.
[[#Verse 10.]] But that day belongs to the Sovereign Lord of Heavenâs Armies.
It is a day of reckoning, when he will pay back his adversaries.
His sword will devour them until its appetite is satisfied.
It will drink its fill from their blood!
Indeed it will be a sacrifice for the Sovereign Lord of Heavenâs Armies
in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.
[[#Verse 11.]]Â Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment,
you dear poor people of Egypt.
But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use;
there will be no healing for you.
[[#Verse 12.]]Â The nations have heard of your shameful defeat.
Your cries of distress fill the earth.
One soldier has stumbled over another
and both of them have fallen down defeated.â
### The Lord Predicts that Nebuchadnezzar Will Attack and Plunder Egypt
[[#Verse 13.]] The Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about Nebuchadnezzar coming to attack the land of Egypt:
[[#Verse 14.]]Â âMake an announcement throughout Egypt.
Proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes.
âTake your positions and prepare to do battle.
For the enemy army is destroying all the nations around you.â
[[#Verse 15.]] Why will your soldiers be defeated?
They will not stand because I, the Lord, will thrust them down.
[[#Verse 16.]]Â I will make many stumble.
They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee.
They will say, âGet up!
Letâs go back to our own people.
Letâs go back to our homelands
because the enemy is coming to destroy us.â
[[#Verse 17.]]Â There at home they will say, âPharaoh king of Egypt is just a big noise!
He has let the most opportune moment pass by.â
[[#Verse 18.]] I the King, whose name is the Lord of Heavenâs Armies, swear this:
âI swear as surely as I live that a conqueror is coming.
He will be as imposing as Mount Tabor is among the mountains,
as Mount Carmel is against the backdrop of the sea.
[[#Verse 19.]]Â Pack your bags for exile,
you inhabitants of poor dear Egypt.
For Memphis will be laid waste.
It will lie in ruins and be uninhabited.
[[#Verse 20.]]Â Egypt is like a beautiful young cow.
But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies.
[[#Verse 21.]]Â Even her mercenaries
will prove to be like pampered, well-fed calves.
For they too will turn and run away.
They will not stand their ground
when the time for them to be destroyed comes,
the time for them to be punished.
[[#Verse 22.]]Â Egypt will run away, hissing like a snake,
as the enemy comes marching up in force.
They will come against her with axes
as if they were woodsmen chopping down trees.
[[#Verse 23.]]Â The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest.
But I, the Lord, affirm that the enemy will cut them down.
For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts.
They will be too numerous to count.
[[#Verse 24.]] Poor dear Egypt will be put to shame.
She will be handed over to the people from the north.ââ
[[#Verse 25.]] The Lord of Heavenâs Armies, the God of Israel, says, âI will punish Amon, the god of Thebes. I will punish Egypt, its gods, and its kings. I will punish Pharaoh and all who trust in him.Â
[[#Verse 26.]] I will hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar and his troops, who want to kill them. But later on, people will live in Egypt again as they did in former times. I, the Lord, affirm it!â
### A Promise of Hope for Israel
[[#Verse 27.]] âYou descendants of Jacob, my servants, do not be afraid;
do not be terrified, people of Israel.
For I will rescue you and your descendants
from the faraway lands where you are captives.
The descendants of Jacob will return to their land and enjoy peace.
They will be secure and no one will terrify them.
[[#Verse 28.]] I, the Lord, tell you not to be afraid,
you descendants of Jacob, my servant,
for I am with you.
Though I completely destroy all the nations where I scatter you,
I will not completely destroy you.
I will indeed discipline you but only in due measure.
I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.â
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