JEREMIAH XLV. XLVI. that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith B.C. cir. 607. the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of 27 Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GoD liveth. Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until 28 there be an end of them. Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, 1 mine, or theirs. 29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for 30 evil: Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life. 45 THE word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the 2 fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; 3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! 4 For the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, And I find no rest. Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, And that which I have planted I will pluck up, Even this whole land. 5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: For, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: In all places whither thou goest. 46 THE word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, 2 which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. 3 Order ye the buckler and shield, And draw near to battle. 4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, 5 And stand forth with your helmets; Furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines. Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? And their mighty ones are 2 beaten down, And are 3 fled apace, and look not back : For fear was round about, saith the LORD. 6 Let not the swift flee away, Nor the mighty man escape; Toward the north by the river Euphrates. 7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, Whose waters are moved as the rivers? 8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, And his waters are moved like the rivers; And he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; 1 Heb. from me, or them. 9 Come up, ye horses; And rage, ye chariots; And let the mighty men come forth; The Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; And the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow. 10 For this is the day of the Lord GoD of hosts, 11 A day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: And it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: For the Lord GoD of hosts hath a sacrifice In the north country by the river Euphrates. Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: In vain shalt thou use many medicines; 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, 13 14 15 And thy cry hath filled the land: For the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, And they are fallen both together. THE word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, And publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: Say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; For the sword shall devour round about thee. Why are thy valiant men swept away? They stood not, because the LORD did drive them. 16 He made many to fall, Yea, one fell upon another: And they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, And to the land of our nativity, From the oppressing sword. 17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; He hath passed the time appointed. 18 As I live, saith the king, Whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, And as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. 19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, And desolate without an inhabitant. 20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, But destruction cometh; It cometh out of the north. 21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like 5 fatted bullocks; For they also are turned back, And are fled away together: they did not stand, Because the day of their calamity was come upon them, And the time of their visitation. 22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; For they shall march with an army, And come against her with axes, As hewers of wood. 23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, Though it cannot be searched; 1 Heb. Cush and Put. 2 Heb. no cure shall be unto thee. 3 Heb. multiplied the faller. 4 Heb. Make thee instruments of 5 Heb. bullocks of the stall. JEREMIAH XLVII. Because they are more than the grasshoppers, 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; 25 She shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; With their gods, and their kings; Even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him : B.C. cir. 607-600. 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, 27 And into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, And into the hand of his servants : And afterward it shall be inhabited, As in the days of old, saith the LORD. But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, And be not dismayed, O Israel: For, behold, I will save thee from afar off, And at ease, and none shall make him afraid. 28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, Saith the LORD: for I am with thee; For I will make a full end of all the nations Whither I have driven thee: But I will not make a full end of thee, But correct thee in measure; Yet will I 3 not leave thee wholly unpunished. 47 THE word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote 4 Gaza. Thus saith the LORD; 2 Behold, waters rise up out of the north, And shall be an overflowing flood, And shall overflow the land, and 5 all that is therein; The city, and them that dwell therein; Then the men shall cry, And all the inhabitants of the land shall howl. 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, At the rushing of his chariots, And at the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers shall not look back to their children For feebleness of hands; 4 Because of the day that cometh To spoil all the Philistines, And to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon Every helper that remaineth : For the LORD will spoil the Philistines, The remnant of 6 the country of Caphtor. 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; 6 7 Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: How long wilt thou cut thyself? O thou sword of the LORD, How long will it be ere thou be quiet? 7 put up thyself into thy scabbard, 8 How can it be quiet, Seeing the LORD hath given it a charge Against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? There hath he appointed it. 1 Or, nourisher. 2 Heb. Amon. 3 Or, not utterly cut thee off. 4 Heb. Azzah. 5 Heb. the fulness thereof. 6 Heb. the isle. 7 Heb. gather thyself. 8 Heb. How canst thou? 48 AGAINST Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: 1 Misgab is confounded and dismayed. 2 There shall be no more praise of Moab: In Heshbon they have devised evil against it; 6 4 Continual weeping shall go up; For in the going down of Horonaim The enemies have heard a cry of destruction. Flee, save your lives, And be like 5 the heath in the wilderness. 7 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, Thou shalt also be taken: And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity With his priests and his princes together. 8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, And no city shall escape: The valley also shall perish, And the plain shall be destroyed, 9 Give wings unto Moab, That it may flee and get away: For the cities thereof shall be desolate, Without any to dwell therein. 10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, And cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. 11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, And he hath settled on his lees, And hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Therefore his taste 7 remained in him, And his scent is not changed. 12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, That I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, And shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. 13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, 14 As the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence. And strong men for the war? 15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, And his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, 16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, And his affliction hasteth fast. 17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; And all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, And the beautiful rod! 18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; 1 Or, The high place. 2 Or, be brought to silence. 3 Heb. go after thee. 4 Heb. Weeping with weeping. 5 Or, a naked tree. 6 Or, negligently. 7 Heb. stood. 8 Heb. the choice of his, &c. Howl and cry; Tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, 21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; Upon Holon, and upon Ĵahazah, and upon Mephaath, 22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim, 23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon, 24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, And upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. 25 The horn of Moab is cut off, 26 And his arm is broken, saith the LORD. Make ye him drunken: For he magnified himself against the LORD: And he also shall be in derision. 27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves? For since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. 28 O ye that dwell in Moab, 29 Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, And be like the dove That maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud,) His loftiness, and his arrogancy, And his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. 30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; 31 But it shall not be so; 3 His lies shall not so effect it. Therefore will I howl for Moab, And I will cry out for all Moab; Mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres. 32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: Thy plants are gone over the sea, They reach even to the sea of Jazer: The spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage. 33 And joy and gladness is taken From the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; And I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: Their shouting shall be no shouting. 34 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, 35 And even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, As an heifer of three years old: For the waters also of Nimrim shall be 4 desolate. Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, Him that offereth in the high places, And him that burneth incense to his gods. 36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, And mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: 37 For every head shall be bald, 1 Heb. inhabitress. 3 Or, those on whom he stayeth, (Heb. his bars) do not right. 4 Heb. desolations. |