Jeremiah 46

1Yahweh’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.Cross-references: Gen 10:5 · Num 23:9 · Jer 1:10 · Jer 4:7 · Jer 25:15 · Zech 2:8 · +1 more

2Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.Cross-references: 2Ki 23:29 · 2Chr 35:20 · Isa 10:9 · Jer 25:1 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 25:19 · +4 more

3“Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!Cross-references: Isa 8:9 · Isa 21:5 · Jer 51:11 · Joel 3:9 · Nah 2:1 · Nah 3:14

4Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:5 · 1Sam 17:38 · 2Chr 26:14 · Neh 4:16 · Jer 51:3 · Ezek 21:9 · +1 more

5Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 19:17 · 2Ki 7:6 · Isa 19:16 · Jer 6:25 · Jer 20:3 · Jer 20:10 · +6 more

6“Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.Cross-references: Judg 4:15 · Ps 27:2 · Ps 33:16 · Ps 147:10 · Eccl 9:11 · Isa 8:15 · +14 more

7“Who is this who rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?Cross-references: Song 3:6 · Song 8:5 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 63:1 · Jer 47:2 · Dan 9:26 · +3 more

8Egypt rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’Cross-references: Ex 15:9 · Isa 10:13 · Isa 37:24 · Ezek 29:3 · Ezek 32:2

9Go up, you horses! Rage, you chariots! Let the mighty men go out: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.Cross-references: Gen 10:6 · Gen 10:13 · 1Chr 1:11 · Isa 66:19 · Jer 30:5 · Jer 47:3 · +5 more

10For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.Cross-references: Deut 32:42 · 2Ki 24:7 · Isa 13:6 · Isa 34:5 · Isa 61:2 · Isa 63:4 · +11 more

11Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.Cross-references: Gen 37:25 · Gen 43:11 · Isa 47:1 · Jer 8:22 · Jer 14:17 · Jer 30:12 · +7 more

12The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they both fall together.”Cross-references: 1Sam 5:12 · Isa 10:4 · Isa 15:5 · Isa 19:2 · Jer 14:2 · Jer 46:6 · +6 more

13The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:Cross-references: Isa 19:1 · Isa 29:1 · Jer 43:10 · Jer 44:30

14“Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes; say, ‘Stand up, and prepare, for the sword has devoured around you.’Cross-references: Ex 14:2 · 2Sam 2:26 · Isa 1:20 · Isa 31:8 · Isa 34:6 · Jer 2:30 · +9 more

15Why are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because Yahweh pushed them.Cross-references: Ex 6:1 · Deut 11:23 · Judg 5:20 · Ps 18:14 · Ps 18:39 · Ps 44:2 · +5 more

16He made many to stumble. Yes, they fell on one another. They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.’Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · Jer 46:6 · Jer 46:21 · Jer 50:16 · Jer 51:9

17They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’Cross-references: Ex 15:9 · 1Ki 20:10 · 1Ki 20:18 · Isa 19:11 · Isa 31:3 · Isa 37:27 · +2 more

18“As I live,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.Cross-references: Josh 19:22 · Judg 4:6 · 1Ki 18:42 · Ps 89:12 · Isa 47:4 · Isa 48:2 · +7 more

19You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burned up, without inhabitant.Cross-references: Isa 20:4 · Jer 26:9 · Jer 34:22 · Jer 44:1 · Jer 48:18 · Jer 51:29 · +3 more

20“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.Cross-references: Jer 1:14 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 46:6 · Jer 46:10 · Jer 46:24 · Jer 47:2 · +2 more

21Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · 2Sam 10:6 · 2Ki 7:6 · Ps 37:13 · Prov 15:17 · Isa 10:3 · +14 more

22Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.Cross-references: Isa 10:15 · Isa 10:33 · Isa 14:8 · Isa 29:4 · Isa 37:24 · Jer 51:20 · +3 more

23They will cut down her forest,” says Yahweh, “though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.Cross-references: Judg 6:5 · Judg 7:12 · Isa 10:18 · Ezek 20:46 · Joel 2:25 · Rev 9:2

24The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed; she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.”Cross-references: Ps 137:8 · Jer 1:15 · Jer 46:11 · Jer 46:19 · Ezek 29:1

25Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him.Cross-references: Ex 12:12 · Isa 19:1 · Isa 20:5 · Isa 30:2 · Isa 31:1 · Jer 17:5 · +7 more

26I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Jer 44:30 · Jer 48:47 · Jer 49:39 · Ezek 29:8 · Ezek 32:11

27“But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant. Don’t be dismayed, Israel; for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.Cross-references: Isa 11:11 · Isa 41:13 · Isa 43:1 · Isa 43:5 · Isa 44:2 · Jer 23:3 · +14 more

28Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh, “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you, but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”Cross-references: Josh 1:5 · Josh 1:9 · Ps 46:7 · Ps 46:11 · Isa 8:9 · Isa 27:7 · +25 more