# Jeremiah 46

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/46

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the nations.
2. Concerning Egypt, the army of Pharaoh Necho, king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah.
3. Array the buckler and shield, and approach the battle.
4. Gird the horses, mount up you horsemen, and take your stand in helmets; polish the lances and don the coats of mail.
5. Why have I seen them dismayed and turning back? Their champions lie shattered, fleeing headlong without glancing behind—terror surrounds them, says Yahweh.
6. Let not the swift flee, nor the champion escape; to the north, beside the Euphrates River, they have stumbled and fallen.
7. Who is this rising like the Nile, whose waters surge like the rivers?
8. Egypt rises like the Nile, its waters surging like the rivers, and he says, "I will rise, I will cover the land, I will destroy the city and those dwelling in it."
9. Advance, horses, and charge wildly, chariots; let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put grasping the shield, and the Ludim grasping and bending the bow.
10. That day is for the Lord Yahweh of hosts, a day of vengeance to repay his foes; the sword will devour and sate itself and drench in their blood, for the Lord Yahweh of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north land by the Euphrates River.
11. Ascend Gilead and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt—in vain have you multiplied medicines; no healing exists for you.
12. The nations have heard your disgrace, and your cry has filled the land; for the warrior has stumbled against the warrior, both of them fallen together.
13. The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon coming to strike the land of Egypt.
14. Proclaim in Egypt, announce in Migdol, announce in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say, "Take your stand and prepare yourself, for the sword has consumed all around you."
15. Why have your mighty ones been swept away? They did not stand, because Yahweh drove them.
16. He caused many to stumble; indeed, one fell upon his fellow, and they said, "Arise, let us return to our people and to our native land, from before the oppressing sword."
17. They called out there: "Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is mere tumult; he let the appointed time pass."
18. As I live, declares the King whose name is Yahweh of Hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.
19. Prepare baggage for exile for yourself, O dweller, daughter of Egypt, for Noph will become a desolation and be burned without inhabitant.
20. Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; destruction from the north has come—it has come.
21. Even her mercenaries among her are like fattened calves of the stall, for they too turned away, fled together, and did not stand, because the day of their disaster has come upon them, the time of their reckoning.
22. Her sound goes like a serpent, for they march with an army and come against her with axes, like those who cut wood.
23. They will cut down her forest, declares Yahweh, though it cannot be searched through, for they outnumber locusts and have no count.
24. The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame and given into the hand of the people of the north.
25. Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, declares: See, I will punish Amon of No, Pharaoh, Egypt, her gods, her kings—even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
26. I will give them into the hand of those seeking their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; afterward it will be inhabited as in former days, declares Yahweh.
27. But you, my servant Jacob, do not fear; do not be dismayed, Israel, for I will save you from afar and your offspring from the land of their captivity; Jacob will return, live quietly and at ease, and none will terrify him.
28. Do not fear, my servant Jacob, says Yahweh, for I am with you; for I will completely destroy all the nations where I have driven you, but I will not completely destroy you—I will discipline you with justice and will not leave you unpunished.

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