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Jeremiah 46

46 Messages from the Eternal to the prophet Jeremiah about the nations.

2 On Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt at Karkemish on the river Euphrates, where it was defeated by Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

Ready with your shields and targes,

forward to the fray!

Harness horses, mount your chargers,

on with helmets, swing your spears,

don your coats of mail!

What! routed, in a panic!

Their braves are beaten,

they fly, never rally,

beset by terror;

but no speed saves them,

no hero escapes,

in the north, by the Euphrates,

they collapse.

What is this, rising like the Nile,

with tossing floods?

’Tis Egypt shouting, “I will engulf the world,

I rise to sweep off its inhabitants!”

Prance on, horses, rage away, chariots,

charge on, warriors,

men with shields from Kush and Punt,

bowmen from Libya!

But this is Lord Eternal’s day,

a day for vengeance on his foes,

a day when the sword devours with a vengeance,

drinking its fill of blood;

for the Lord of hosts is sacrificing victims

in the north, by the Euphrates.

You may get balsam from Gilead,

my lady Egypt,

but all your salves are vain,

for you there is no healing.

The whole world hears you wailing,

your crying rings around,

for one brave falls over another,

and both drop to the ground.

13 The Eternal’s prediction to the prophet Jeremiah that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon would come and ravage the land of Egypt:

Tell it in Migdol,

proclaim it at Memphis:

“To your feet, be all ready,

the sword sweeps all round you!”

Why has Apis run away?

That Bull-god could not stand,

for the Eternal laid him low.

Your foreign traders fall away,

they fall and to themselves they say,

“Let us begone to the land of our birth,

back home again,

away from the sweep of the sword.”

(Call the Pharaoh “Fatality,”

for he has let his chance go by!)

By my life, says the King, the Lord of hosts,

here comes an invader,

towering like mount Tabor,

like Karmel by the sea!

Get ready for your exile,

my lady Egypt;

for Memphis empty lies and desolate,

burned to the very ground.

Egypt is a handsome heifer,

but herdsmen from the north shall master her;

her day of doom has dawned,

her punishing hour is upon her;

the soldiers that she hired

have proved like pampered kine,

they scampered off in flight,

they made no stand.

She can but draw back hissing

like a snake before her foes;

for they outnumber locusts,

past all counting,

they come at her with axes,

like woodmen hewing a tree,

while the Eternal cries out, “Fell her forest,

dense though it be.”

My lady Egypt is dishonoured,

in the hands of the north- men. 25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, declares: “I will punish Amon the god of Thebes, and also the Pharaoh with any who rely on him; 26 I will hand them over to their murderers, to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Though in after days Egypt shall be inhabited as it was in the days of old (so the Eternal promises).”