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Jeremiah, Chapter 46,  verses 13-26

13 This is them Lit wordmessage which the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt:
 14 “Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol,
Proclaim also in Memphis and Tahpanhes;
Say, ‘Take your stand and get yourself ready,
For the sword has devoured those around you.’
 15 “Why have your mighty ones become prostrate?
They do not stand because the LORD has thrust them down.
 16 “They have repeatedly stumbled;
Indeed, they have fallen one against another.
Then they said, ‘Get up! And let us go back
To our own people and our native land
Away from then Lit oppressing swordsword of the oppressor.’
 17 “o Some ancient versions read Call the name of Pharaoh a big noiseThey cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise;
He has let the appointed time pass by!’
 18 “As I live,” declares the King
Whose name is the LORD of hosts,
“Surely one shall come who looms up like Tabor among the mountains,
Or like Carmel by the sea.
 19 “Make your baggage ready for exile,
O daughter dwelling in Egypt,
For Memphis will become a desolation;
It will even be burned down andp Lit withoutbereft of inhabitants.
 20 “Egypt is a pretty heifer,
But aq Or possibly mosquitohorsefly is coming from the north—it is coming!
 21 “Also her mercenaries in her midst
Are liker Lit of the stallfattened calves,
For even they too have turned back and have fled away together;
They did not stand their ground.
For the day of their calamity has come upon them,
The time of their punishment.
 22 “Its sound moves along like a serpent;
For they move ons Or in forcelike an army
And come to her as woodcutters with axes.
 23 “They have cut down her forest,” declares the LORD;
“Surely it will no more be found,
Even thought I.e. trees of the forest, the Egyptiansthey are now more numerous than locusts
And are without number.
 24 “The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame,
Given over to theu Lit handpower of the people of the north.”
25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him. 26 I shall give them over to thev Lit handpower of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of hisw Lit servantsofficers. Afterwards, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares the LORD.

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