Jeremiah 46:13-26
1599 Geneva Bible
13 ¶ The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the Prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14 Publish in Egypt and declare in Migdol, and proclaim in Noph, and in Tahpanhes, and say, Stand still and prepare thee, for the sword shall devour round about thee.
15 Why are thy valiant men put back? they could not stand, because the Lord did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, and one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, let us go again to our [a]own people, and to the land of our nativity from the sword of the violent.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt, and of a great multitude, [b]hath passed the time appointed.
18 As I live, saith the King, whose Name is the Lord of hosts, surely as Tabor is in the mountains, and as Carmel is in the sea: so shall [c]it come.
19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, make thee gear to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate, without an inhabitant.
20 Egypt is like a [d]fair calf, but destruction cometh: out of the North it cometh.
21 Also her hired men [e]are in the midst of her like fat calves: they are also turned back and fled away together: they could not stand, because the day of their destruction was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22 The voice thereof shall go forth like a [f]serpent: for they shall march with an army, and come against [g]her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23 They shall cut down [h]her forest, saith the Lord: for they cannot be counted, because they are more than the [i]grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded: she shall be delivered into the hands of the people of the North.
25 ¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will visit thy [j]common people of No and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings, even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him,
26 And I will deliver them into the hands of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and into the hands of his servants, and afterward she shall dwell as [k]in the old time, saith the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 46:16 As they that should repent that they helped the Egyptians.
- Jeremiah 46:17 He derideth them which shall impute their overthrow to lack of counsel and policy, or to fortune, and not observing of time: not considering that it is God’s just judgment.
- Jeremiah 46:18 To wit, that the Egyptians shall be destroyed.
- Jeremiah 46:20 They have abundance of all things, and therefore are disobedient and proud.
- Jeremiah 46:21 As verse 9.
- Jeremiah 46:22 They shall be scarce able to speak for fear of the Chaldeans.
- Jeremiah 46:22 Meaning, Egypt.
- Jeremiah 46:23 That is, they shall slay the great and mighty men of power.
- Jeremiah 46:23 To wit, Nebuchadnezzar’s army.
- Jeremiah 46:25 Some take the Hebrew word Amon for the King’s name of No, that is, of Alexandria.
- Jeremiah 46:26 Meaning, that after the space of forty years Egypt should be restored, Isa. 19:23; Ezek. 29:13.
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