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| [1]The words of the Lord, which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles, |
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| [2]As against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Perath in Carchemish, which Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. |
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| [3]Make ready buckler and shield, and go forth to battle. |
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| [4]Make ready the horses, and let the horsemen get up, and stand up with your sallets, furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines. |
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| [5]Wherefore have I seen them afraid, and driven back? For their mighty men are smitten, and are fled away, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord. |
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| [6]The swift shall not flee away, nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Perath. |
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| [7]Who is this, that cometh up, as a flood, whose waters are moved like the rivers? |
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| [8]Egypt riseth up like the 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 with them that dwell therein. |
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| [9]Come up, ye horses, and rage ye chariots, and let the valiant men come forth, the black Moors [Ethiopians], and the Libyans that bear the shield, and the Lydians that handle and bend the bow. |
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| [10]For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, and a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his enemies: for 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 Perath. |
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| [11]Go up unto Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines: for thou shalt have no health. |
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| [12]The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong and they are fallen both together. |
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| [13]The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. |
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| [14]Publish in Egypt and declare in Migdol, and proclaim in Noph, and in Tahpanhes , and say, Stand still, and prepare thee: for the sword shall devour round about thee. |
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| [15]Why are thy valiant men put back? They could not stand, because the Lord did drive them. |
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| [16]He made many to fall, and one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity from the sword of the violent. |
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| [17]They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt, and of a great multitude hath passed the time appointed. |
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| [18]As I live, saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts, surely as Tabor is in the mountains, and as Carmel is in the sea: so shall it come. |
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| [19]O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, make thee gear to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate, without an inhabitant. |
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| [20]Egypt is like a fair calf, but destruction cometh: out of the north it cometh. |
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| [21]Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fat calves: they are also turned back and fled away together: they could not stand, because the day of their destruction was come upon them, and the time of their visitation. |
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| [22]The voice thereof shall go forth like a serpent: for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. |
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| [23]They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord: for they cannot be counted, because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable. |
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| [24]The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded: she shall be delivered into the hands of the people of the north. |
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| [25]Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will visit the common people of No and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings, even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him, |
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| [26]And I will deliver them into the hands of those, that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants, and afterward she shall dwell as in the old time, saith the Lord. |
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| [27]But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not thou afraid, O Israel: for behold, I will deliver thee from a far country, and thy seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return and be in rest, and prosperity, and none shall make him afraid. |
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| [28]Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee, and I will utterly destroy all the nations, whither I have driven thee: but I will not utterly destroy thee, but correct thee by judgment, and not utterly cut thee off. |
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