1The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah, the prophet, against the nations {Gentiles}, 2Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

3Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 4Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; polish {furbish} the spears, and put on the coats of mail {brigandines}. 5Why {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. 6Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. 7Who is this that cometh up like {as} a flood, whose waters are moved like {as} the rivers? 8Egypt 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 of it {thereof}.

9Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; {the} Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow. 10For this is the day of the LORD God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself of His adversaries; and the sword shall devour, and it shall be filled to the full {satiate} and made drunk with their blood; for the LORD God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. 11Go 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. 12The 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.

13The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah, the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, should come and smite the land of Egypt:

14Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes; say {ye}, Stand fast, and prepare {thee}; for the sword shall devour round about thee. 15Why are thy valiant men swept away? They stood not, because the LORD did drive them. 16He 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. 17They did cry there: Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. 18As I live, saith the King, Whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely like {as} Tabor {is} among the mountains, and like {as} Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. 19O thou daughter, dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. 20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. 21Also 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 judgment {visitation}. 22The voice of it {thereof} shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, like {as} hewers of wood. 23They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable. 24The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. 25The 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 who trust in him; 26And I will deliver them into the hand of those who 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.

27But 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. 28Fear 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 to which {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.