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 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 in Egypt,
and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say,
Stand forth, and prepare; 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 dwells 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 you be afraid, 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 you 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.
{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 is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently;
and cursed is 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 do you say, 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 has 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 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 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 shake your 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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