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| Jeremiah 46:1 |
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The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the
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| Jeremiah 46:2 |
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Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco
king of Egypt, which 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. |
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| Jeremiah 46:3 |
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Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw
near to battle. |
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| Jeremiah 46:4 |
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Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen,
and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
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| Jeremiah 46:5 |
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Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed
and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace,
and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah. |
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| Jeremiah 46:6 |
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Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty
man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
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| Jeremiah 46:7 |
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Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose
waters toss themselves like the rivers? |
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| Jeremiah 46:8 |
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Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters
toss themselves like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the
earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof. |
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| Jeremiah 46:9 |
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Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and
let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim,
that handle and bend the bow. |
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| Jeremiah 46:10 |
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For that day is a day of the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the
sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for
the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river
Euphrates. |
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| Jeremiah 46:11 |
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Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter
of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.
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| Jeremiah 46:12 |
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The nations have heard of thy shame, and the
earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,
they are fallen both of them together. |
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| Jeremiah 46:13 |
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The word that Jehovah spake to Jeremiah the
prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land
of Egypt. |
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| Jeremiah 46:14 |
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Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol,
and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand forth, and prepare thee;
for the sword hath devoured round about thee. |
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| Jeremiah 46:15 |
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Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood
not, because Jehovah did drive them. |
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| Jeremiah 46:16 |
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He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one
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. |
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| Jeremiah 46:17 |
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They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but
a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by. |
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| Jeremiah 46:18 |
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As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah
of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so
shall he come. |
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| Jeremiah 46:19 |
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O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish
thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall
be burnt up, without inhabitant. |
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| Jeremiah 46:20 |
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Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction
out of the north is come, it is come. |
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| Jeremiah 46:21 |
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Also her hired men in the midst of her are like
calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together,
they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time
of their visitation. |
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| Jeremiah 46:22 |
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The sound thereof shall go like the serpent;
for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of
wood. |
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| Jeremiah 46:23 |
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They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah,
though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are
innumerable. |
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| Jeremiah 46:24 |
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The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame;
she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. |
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| Jeremiah 46:25 |
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Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith:
Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her
kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him: |
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| Jeremiah 46:26 |
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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 afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the
days of old, saith Jehovah. |
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| Jeremiah 46:27 |
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But fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, neither
be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from
the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at
ease, and none shall make him afraid. |
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| Jeremiah 46:28 |
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Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah;
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 I will correct thee in
measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished. |
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