Jeremiah, starting at chapter 46
{46:1} The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the nations. {46:2} Of 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. {46:3} Prepare you
the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. {46:4} Harness the
horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets;
furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. {46:5} Why have I seen
it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones
are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is
on every side, says Yahweh. {46:6} Don't let the swift flee away, nor
the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they
stumbled and fallen. {46:7} Who is this who rises up like the Nile,
whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? {46:8} Egypt rises up
like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he
says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities
and its inhabitants. {46:9} Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots;
and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield;
and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow. {46:10} For that day is [a
day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may
avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be
satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river
Euphrates. {46:11} Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter
of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for
you. {46:12} The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is
full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty,
they are fallen both of them together. {46:13} The word that Yahweh
spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
should come and strike the land of Egypt. {46:14} Declare you in
Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes:
say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured
around you. {46:15} Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't
stand, because Yahweh did drive them. {46:16} He made many to stumble,
yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go
again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the
oppressing sword. {46:17} They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is
but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by. {46:18} 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 shall he come. {46:19}
You daughter who dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into
captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt
up, without inhabitant. {46:20} Egypt is a very beautiful heifer;
[but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come. {46:21} Also
her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for
they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't
stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of
their visitation. {46:22} The sound of it shall go like the serpent;
for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as
wood cutters. {46:23} They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh,
though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts,
and are innumerable. {46:24} The daughter of Egypt shall be
disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of
the north. {46:25} Yahweh 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: {46:26} and I
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; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of
old, says Yahweh. {46:27} But don't be afraid you, Jacob my servant,
neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar,
and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall
return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him
afraid. {46:28} Don't be afraid you, 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.
{47:1} The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet
concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza. {47:2}
Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall
become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that
is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall
cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. {47:3} At the
noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing
of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don't look
back to their children for feebleness of hands; {47:4} because of the
day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre
and Sidon every helper who remains: for Yahweh will destroy the
Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. {47:5} Baldness is
come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their
valley: how long will you cut yourself? {47:6} You sword of Yahweh,
how long will it be before you be quiet? put up yourself into your
scabbard; rest, and be still. {47:7} How can you be quiet, seeing
Yahweh has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the
seashore, there has he appointed it.
{48:1} Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe
to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is
taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down. {48:2} The praise of
Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come,
and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be
brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you. {48:3} The sound of a
cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction! {48:4} Moab is
destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. {48:5} For
by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for
at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of
destruction. {48:6} Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in
the wilderness. {48:7} For, because you have trusted in your works and
in your treasures, you also shall be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth
into captivity, his priests and his princes together. {48:8} The
destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the
valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh
has spoken. {48:9} Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her
away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell
therein. {48:10} Cursed be he who does the work of Yahweh negligently;
and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood. {48:11} Moab has
been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has
not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into
captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not
changed. {48:12} Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I
will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and
they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
{48:13} Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was
ashamed of Bethel their confidence. {48:14} How say you, We are mighty
men, and valiant men for the war? {48:15} Moab is laid waste, and they
are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to
the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies. {48:16}
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
{48:17} All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know
his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
{48:18} You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory,
and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you,
he has destroyed your strongholds. {48:19} Inhabitant of Aroer, stand
by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say,
What has been done? {48:20} Moab is disappointed; for it is broken
down: wail and cry; tell you it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
{48:21} Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on
Jahzah, and on Mephaath, {48:22} and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on
Beth Diblathaim, {48:23} and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth Gamul, and on
Beth Meon, {48:24} and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the
cities of the land of Moab, far or near. {48:25} The horn of Moab is
cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh. {48:26} Make you him
drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall
wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. {48:27} For
wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as
often as you speak of him, you wag the head. {48:28} You inhabitants
of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove
that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss. {48:29} We have heard
of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his
pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. {48:30} I
know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nothing; his boastings have
worked nothing. {48:31} Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will
cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.
{48:32} With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, vine
of Sibmah: your branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the
sea of Jazer: on your summer fruits and on your vintage the destroyer
is fallen. {48:33} Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful
field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from
the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall
be no shouting. {48:34} From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even
to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to
Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become
desolate. {48:35} Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh,
him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his
gods. {48:36} Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my
heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the
abundance that he has gotten is perished. {48:37} For every head is
bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on
the waist sackcloth. {48:38} On all the housetops of Moab and in its
streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like
a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh. {48:39} How is it broken
down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so
shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.
{48:40} For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and
shall spread out his wings against Moab. {48:41} Kerioth is taken, and
the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at
that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. {48:42} Moab
shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified
himself against Yahweh. {48:43} Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are
on you, inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh. {48:44} He who flees from the
fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall
be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year
of their visitation, says Yahweh. {48:45} Those who fled stand without
strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of
Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the
corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
{48:46} Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your
sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
{48:47} Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter
days, says Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
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