Jeremiah 46 (NET)

Jeremiah 46:1¹This was the Lord’ s message to the prophet Jeremiah about the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:2²He 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:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:3³“Fall into ranks with your shields ready! Prepare to march into battle!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:4⁴Harness the horses to the chariots; mount your horses! Take your positions with helmets on; ready your spears! Put on the armor!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:5⁵“What 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,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:6⁶But 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:7⁷Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:8⁸Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt said, ‘I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:9⁹Go 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:10¹⁰But that day belongs to the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s 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 Heaven’s Armies in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:11¹¹Go 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:12¹²The 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.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:13¹³The Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about Nebuchadnezzar coming to attack the land of Egypt:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:14¹⁴“Make an announcement throughout Egypt. Proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes. ‘Take your positions and prepare to do battle. For the enemy army is destroying all the nations around you.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:15¹⁵Why will your soldiers be defeated? They will not stand because I, the Lord, will thrust them down.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:16¹⁶I will make many stumble. They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee. They will say, ‘Get up! Let’s go back to our own people. Let’s go back to our homelands because the enemy is coming to destroy us.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:17¹⁷There at home they will say, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is just a big noise! He has let the most opportune moment pass by.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:18¹⁸I the King, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, swear this: ‘I 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:19¹⁹Pack your bags for exile, you inhabitants of poor dear Egypt. For Memphis will be laid waste. It will lie in ruins and be uninhabited.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:20²⁰Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:21²¹Even 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:22²²Egypt 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:23²³The 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:24²⁴Poor dear Egypt will be put to shame. She will be handed over to the people from the north.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:25²⁵The Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says, “I 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:26²⁶I 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!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:27²⁷“You 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Jeremiah 46:28²⁸I, 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.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions