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Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: [for] fear [was] round about, saith the Lord (46:5) Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates (46:6) Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? (46:7) Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof (46:8) Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow (46:9) For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates (46:10) Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured (46:11) The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together (46:12) The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt (46:13) Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee (46:14) Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them (46:15) He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword (46:16) They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed (46:17) [As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come (46:18) O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant (46:19) Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north (46:20) Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation (46:21) The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood (46:22) They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable (46:23) The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north (46:24) The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him: (46:25) And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord (46:26) But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid (46:27) Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished
(46:28)
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