Jeremiah 46:13-28

Authorized (King James) Version

¹⁴ 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.
¹⁵ 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,
furnish thyself to go into captivity:
for Noph shall be waste 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 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;
because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
²⁴ The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded;
she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

²⁵ The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith;
Behold, I will punish the multitude 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 hand of those that seek their lives,
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.

²⁷ But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob,
and be not dismayed, O Israel:
for, behold, I will save thee from afar off,
and thy seed from the land of their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and be in rest 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 not leave thee wholly unpunished.