The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 46:2 (NKJV)
Against Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, which was by the River Euphrates in Carchemish, and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

 

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Jeremiah 46:3 (NKJV)
“Order the buckler and shield, And draw near to battle!

 

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Jeremiah 46:4 (NKJV)
Harness the horses, And mount up, you horsemen! Stand forth with your helmets, Polish the spears, Put on the armor!

 

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Jeremiah 46:5 (NKJV)
Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down; They have speedily fled, And did not look back, For fear was all around,” says the LORD.

 

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Jeremiah 46:6 (KJV)
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

 

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Jeremiah 46:7 (NASB)
Who is this that rises like the Nile, Like the rivers whose waters surge?

 

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Jeremiah 46:8 (NASB)
Egypt rises like the Nile, And like the rivers whose waters surge; And He has said, “I will rise and cover that land; I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.”

 

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Jeremiah 46:9 (NKJV)

Come up, O horses, and rage, O chariots!
And let the mighty men come forth:
[c]The Ethiopians and [d]the Libyans who handle the shield,
And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 46:10 (NKJV)

For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
A day of vengeance,
That He may avenge Himself on His adversaries.
The sword shall devour;
It shall be [e]satiated and made drunk with their blood;
For the Lord God of hosts has a sacrifice
In the north country by the River Euphrates.

 

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Jeremiah 46:11 (KJV)
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.

 

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Jeremiah 46:12 (KJV)
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.

 

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Jeremiah 46:13 (NKJV)
The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon would come and strike the land of Egypt.

 

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Jeremiah 46:14 (CSB)
Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol! Proclaim it in Memphis and in Tahpanhes! Say, “Take positions! Prepare yourself, for the sword devours all around you.”

 

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Jeremiah 46:15 (NKJV)
Why are your valiant men swept away? They did not stand Because the LORD drove them away.

 

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Jeremiah 46:16 (NKJV)
He made many fall; Yes, one fell upon another. And they said, ‘Arise! Let us go back to our own people And to the land of our nativity From the oppressing sword.’

 

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Jeremiah 46:17 (KJV)
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

 

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Jeremiah 46:18 (NKJV)
“As I live,” says the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts, “Surely as Tabor is among the mountains And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 46:19 (NKJV)

O you daughter dwelling in Egypt,
Prepare yourself to go into captivity!
For [g]Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 46:20 (NIV)

“Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
but a gadfly is coming
against her from the north.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 46:21 (NIV)


The mercenaries in her ranks
are like fattened calves.
They too will turn and flee together,
they will not stand their ground,
for the day of disaster is coming upon them,
the time for them to be punished.