3 “Line up the shield andabuckler, And draw near for the battle! 4 “Harness the horses, Andbmount the steeds, And take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the scale-armor! 5 “Why have I seen it? They are terrified, They are drawing back, And their mighty men are defeated And have taken refuge in flight, Without facing back; cTerror is on every side!” Declares the LORD. 6 8 9 10 11 Go up to Gilead and obtain balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain have you multipliedkremedies; There is no healing for you. 12 The nations have heard of your shame, And the earth is full of your cry of distress; For one warrior has stumbled overlanother, And both of them have fallen down together. |
13 This is themmessage which the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt: |
14 15 16 “They have repeatedly stumbled; Indeed, they have fallen one against another. Then they said, ‘Get up! And let us go back To our own people and our native land Away from thensword of the oppressor.’ 17 “oThey cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise; He has let the appointed time pass by!’ 18 19 “Make your baggage ready for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt, For Memphis will become a desolation; It will even be burned down andpbereft of inhabitants. 20 “Egypt is a pretty heifer, But aqhorsefly is coming from the north—it is coming! 21 “Also her mercenaries in her midst Are likerfattened calves, For even they too have turned back and have fled away together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their calamity has come upon them, The time of their punishment. 22 “Its sound moves along like a serpent; For they move onslike an army And come to her as woodcutters with axes. 23 “They have cut down her forest,” declares the LORD; “Surely it will no more be found, Even thoughtthey are now more numerous than locusts And are without number. 24 “The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame, Given over to theupower of the people of the north.” |
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him. 26 I shall give them over to thevpower of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of hiswofficers. Afterwards, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares the LORD. |
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