46 These are the messages that Yahweh gave the prophet Yirmiyah (Jeremiah) about other nations: 2 This is about the army of the Mitsri (Egyptian) king Par’oh (Pharaoh) Nekoh who was at Karkemish by the Perat (Euphrates) river. That was the army that the Babylonian King Nevukadnetsar (Nebuchadnezzar) defeated in the fourth year of the reign of Yehudah’s (Judah’s) King Yehoyakim, son of Yoshiyah (Josiah):[ref]

3 Get the small shield and the large shields ready,

and go out for battle.

4 Harness on the horses to the chariots

Mount up on the horses and take your stand with your helmets on.

Polish the spears and put on your armour.

5 What am I seeing here?

They’re filled with terror and they’re retreating,

because their warriors will be crushed.

They’re fleeing for safety without looking back.

Terror is all around.

That is Yahweh’s declaration.

6 Don’t let the swift one flee,

and don’t let the warrior escape.

They’ll stumble and fall there

in the north by the Perat (Euphrates) River,

7 Who’s this coming who rises like the Nile,

whose waters surge up and down like the rivers?

8 Mitsrayim (Egypt) rises like the Nile,

like rivers of water that rise and fall, saying,

‘I’ll go up and I will cover the earth.

≈ I’ll destroy cities and their inhabitants.

9 Go up, you horses.

≈ Be angry, you chariots.

Let the soldiers go out,

Kush (Ethiopia) and Libya,

men skillful with a shield,

≈ and Ludia, men skillful at using bows and arrows.’

10 That day will be the day of vengeance for the master, Commander-in-chief Yahweh, when he’ll avenge himself on his enemies.

The sword will devour and be satisfied—it’ll drink its fill of their blood

because there’ll be a sacrifice to the master, Commander-in-chief Yahweh

in the northern land by the Perat (Euphrates) River.

11 Go up to Gilead and obtain medicine, you virgin daughter of Mitsrayim (Egypt).

It’s vain to put that much medicine on yourself—there’s no cure for you.

12 The nations have heard about your disgrace.

The world is filled with your wailing,

because warrior stumbles against warrior—

both of them fall together.