Jeremiah 46

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Jeremiah 46:1-28 (KJV) 



1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;


God spoke to Jeremiah concerning non-Jewish people.







 2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which 


God knew names in the place he was bringing charges against.




Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. 



3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 


Tell them to get dressed and prepared for war.



4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the brigandines.


God said array yourselves and put on your protective gear.



 5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: [for] fear [was] round about, saith the LORD. 


As soon as they were ready for battle, they immediately took off.  This is God's prophesies for the future.




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


Those who are mighty warriors will not get away: your past skills aren't any good; you are falling and I know exactly where the fall took place. 



7 Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? 


Who is this army that looks as if it came to take over and move like you have perfect plans?



8 Egypt riseth up like a 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 and the inhabitants thereof. 


Egypt boasted of how large of an army they had prepared and how they would invade the cities that encountered.




9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle [and] bend the bow. 


Come one come all and bring your best help from other countries.



10 For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and 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 Euphrates. 


This is the day that God picked; there will be so much bloodshed you will be stuffed and drunk for the Lord will be the one you fight against.



11 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.


Get all the medicine you can find, it will not be enough nor will it ease the pain.



 12 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.


The word is out of how you were beaten down by each other.  You stumble amongst your own military. 




13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt. 


This is the message from God of what will happen to Egypt.



14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. 


God told Jeremiah to put the Word out of what was about to take place.




15 Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them. 


What happened to the strong men?  Oh God wiped them out.



16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.


You will fall on each other and get up and say, let us get out of here and go home to our own land. 



17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. 


Oh, they will cry out about how Pharaoh was a lot of talk.




18 [As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come. 


I give you My Word.



19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.


Get ready to be captured you are leaving Egypt.





 20 Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. 


Egypt had a lot going on but too late trouble is coming from the north to meet her.




21 Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation. 


The army they paid left them alone, they knew they were over their heads in this fight against God's-appointed fight.



22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. 



The voices were silent as a snake:  the army that came against them came with axes like a tree cutter. 


23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable. 


Babylon has so many men you could not count them and with the ax in their hand, they will kill left and right.



24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. 


There will be confusion and the people of Israel will be captured.




25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and [all] them that trust in him: 


The Lord of all said I will punish the people and their gods and their leaders: even Pharoah and everyone who trust in him:



26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD. 


I will deliver personally all these people to Nebuchadrezzar and his staff: and things will be put in place like they should be.


27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid. 


I will rid all but my people who only a few will survive.  When the people see you they will see the good I have for you.




28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.


Israel, I will not totally wipe you out,  you will be punished.  As for all of your enemies, I will bring them to an end.  But you will be punished for the things you did against my Word.

 

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