Judgment on Egypt
This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet Jer 1:10Zec 2:8Gen 10:5Jer 25:15-38Jer 4:7Num 23:9Rom 3:29 concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah: 2Ki 23:29Ezk 29:1-21Isa 10:9Jer 25:1Jer 25:19Jer 36:1Jer 45:1Jer 46:14
“Deploy your shields, small and large; Isa 21:5Jer 51:11-12Jol 3:9Nam 2:1Nam 3:14Isa 8:9-10
advance for battle!
Harness the horses; mount the steeds; Ezk 21:9-11Jer 51:31Sa 17:381Sa 17:52Ch 26:14Ezk 21:28Neh 4:16
take your positions with helmets on!
Polish your spears;
put on armor!
Why am I seeing this? Jer 49:29Jer 6:25Jer 46:212Ki 7:6-7Ezk 32:10Gen 19:17Isa 19:16Jer 20:10
They are terrified,
they are retreating;
their warriors are defeated,
they flee in haste without looking back;
terror is on every side!”
declares the LORD.
“The swift cannot flee, Dan 11:19Jer 46:12Amo 9:1-3Amo 2:14-15Ecc 9:11Isa 30:16-17Isa 8:15Jdg 4:15-21
and the warrior cannot escape!
In the north by the River Euphrates
they stumble and fall.
Who is this, rising like the Nile, Jer 47:2Dan 11:22Isa 8:7-8Amo 8:8Dan 9:26Isa 63:1Rev 12:15Sng 3:6
like rivers whose waters churn?
Egypt rises like the Nile, Exo 15:9-10Ezk 29:3Ezk 32:2Isa 10:13-16Isa 37:24-26
and its waters churn like rivers,
boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth;
I will destroy the cities and their people.’
Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Ezk 27:10Isa 66:19Nam 3:91Ch 1:111Co 1:8Act 2:10Gen 10:13Gen 10:6
Let the warriors come forth—
Cush 1and Put carrying their shields,
men of Lydia drawing the bow.
For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, Deu 32:42Jer 46:2Jol 1:15Jer 46:6Zep 1:7-82Ki 24:7Ezk 39:17-21Isa 13:6
a day of vengeance against His foes.
The sword will devour until it is satisfied,
until it is quenched with their blood.
For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice
in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
Go up to Gilead for balm, Jer 8:22Mic 1:9Isa 47:1Jer 14:17Luk 8:43-44Nam 3:19Ezk 27:17Ezk 30:21-25
O Virgin Daughter of Egypt!
In vain you try many remedies,
but for you there is no healing.
The nations have heard of your shame, Nam 3:8-10Isa 19:2Jer 14:2Jer 46:61Sa 5:12Ezk 32:9-12Isa 10:4Isa 15:5-8
and your outcry fills the earth,
because warrior stumbles over warrior
and both of them have fallen together.”
This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt: Jer 43:10-13Jer 44:30Isa 19:1-25Isa 29:1-24
“Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; Jer 44:1Jer 46:10Isa 1:20Jer 2:30Jer 43:8-9Jer 46:3-4Nam 2:132Sa 2:26
proclaim it in Memphis 2and Tahpanhes:
‘Take your positions and prepare yourself,
for the sword devours those around you.’
Why have your warriors been laid low? Isa 66:15-16Psa 68:2Jer 46:5Psa 18:14Psa 18:39Deu 11:23Exo 6:1Jdg 5:20-21
They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.
They continue to stumble; Lev 26:36-37Jer 51:9Jer 46:21Jer 46:6Jer 50:16
indeed, they have fallen over one another.
They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people
and to the land of our birth,
away from the sword of the oppressor.’
There they will cry out: Isa 19:11-161Ki 20:10Exo 15:91Ki 20:18Ezk 29:3Ezk 31:18Isa 31:3Isa 37:27-29
‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise;
he has let the appointed time pass him by.’
As surely as I live, declares the King, Jer 48:15Jdg 4:6Jos 19:22Isa 47:4Isa 48:2Mal 1:14Psa 89:121Ki 18:42-43
whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains
and like Carmel by the sea.
Pack your bags for exile, Isa 20:4Jer 48:18Ezk 30:13Jer 44:1Ezk 12:3-12Jer 26:9Jer 34:22Jer 51:29-30
O daughter dwelling in Egypt!
For Memphis will be laid waste,
destroyed and uninhabited.
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, Hos 10:11Jer 47:2Jer 1:14Jer 46:6Jer 25:9Jer 46:10Jer 46:24Jer 50:11
but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.
Even the mercenaries among her 2Ki 7:6Jer 46:5Oba 1:132Sa 10:6Amo 6:4Hos 9:7Isa 34:7Jer 50:27
are like fattened calves.
They too will turn back;
together they will flee, they will not stand their ground,
for the day of calamity is coming upon them—
the time of their punishment.
Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, 3 Isa 14:8Isa 29:4Isa 10:15Isa 10:33-34Isa 37:24Jer 51:20-23Mic 1:8Mic 7:16
for the enemy will advance in force;
with axes they will come against her
like woodsmen cutting down trees.
They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, Jdg 7:12Jdg 6:5Jol 2:25Ezk 20:46Isa 10:18Rev 9:2-10
dense though it may be,
for they are more numerous than locusts;
they cannot be counted.
The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; Jer 1:15Ezk 29:1-21Jer 46:11Jer 46:19-20Psa 137:8
she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”
The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am about to punish Amon god of Thebes, 4 along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh. Zep 2:11Exo 12:12Isa 20:5-6Jer 43:12-13Ezk 30:13-16Ezk 32:9-12Ezk 39:6-7Isa 19:1 I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD. Ezk 32:11Jer 44:30Ezk 29:8-14Jer 48:47Jer 49:39
But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, Isa 43:5Isa 43:1Jer 30:10-11Isa 41:13-14Jer 29:14Jer 50:19Amo 9:14Isa 44:2
and do not be dismayed, O Israel.
For I will surely save you out of a distant place,
your descendants from the land of their captivity!
Jacob will return to quiet and ease,
with no one to make him afraid.
And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, Rev 3:191Co 11:32Jer 10:24Amo 9:8-9Jer 30:11Jer 4:27Dan 2:35Hab 3:2
declares the LORD, for I am with you.
Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you,
I will not completely destroy you.
Yet I will discipline you justly,
and will by no means leave you unpunished.”