[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeremiah, starting at chapter 46
{46:1} The word of the LORD 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 the LORD. {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 of the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, 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, the LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD 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 the LORD pushed 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 the LORD of Hosts, 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 has come, it has 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 has 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 the LORD, 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} The LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD. {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 the LORD; 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 the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh struck Gaza. {47:2} Thus says the LORD: 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 the LORD will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor. {47:5} Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? {47:6} You sword of the LORD, 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, since the LORD has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it. {48:1} Of Moab. Thus says the LORD of Hosts, 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD of Hosts. {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 has 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 the LORD. {48:26} Make him drunken; for he magnified himself against the LORD: 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. 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD. {48:39} How it is broken down! How they wail! How Moab has 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 the LORD: 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 the LORD. {48:43} Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD. {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 the LORD. {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 the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. ________________________________________________________________________ The World English Bible: Messianic Edition is in the Public Domain. This translation is also known as the Hebrew Names Version. "World English Bible," "World English Bible: Messianic Edition," and "World English Bible" are trademarks of Rainbow Missions, Inc., and may only be used as names for the Bible translations so named and distributed by Rainbow Missions, Inc., and faithful copies thereof. Typo reports are welcome at http://eBible.org/cgi-bin/comment.cgi. 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