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Jer 46:1	Strong Concordance	The word [01697] of the LORD [03068] which came to Jeremiah [03414] the prophet [05030] against the Gentiles [01471];
	King James	The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
THE PROPHECIES, FORTY-SIXTH THROUGH FIFTY-SECOND CHAPTERS, REFER TO FOREIGN PEOPLES. (Jer. 46:1-28) General heading of the next six chapters of prophecies concerning the Gentiles; the prophecies are arranged according to nations, not by the dates.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

THE PROPHECIES, FORTY-SIXTH THROUGH FIFTY-SECOND CHAPTERS, REFER TO FOREIGN PEOPLES. (Jer. 46:1-28)

General heading of the next six chapters of prophecies concerning the Gentiles; the prophecies are arranged according to nations, not by the dates.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Against the Gentiles - Or, concerning the nations Jer. 46-49:33.

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
Gentiles A near and a far fulfilment of these prophecies against Gentile powers are to be distinguished. In Chapter 46, the near vision is of a Babylonian invasion of Egypt, but verses (Jer 46:27); (Jer 46:28) look forward to the judgment of the nations. (See Scofield) - (Mat 25:32), after Armageddon (Rev 16:14); (See Scofield) - (Rev 19:17) and the deliverance of Israel ("Israel," (Gen 12:2); (Gen 12:3 (See Scofield) - (Rom 11:26). (Jer 50:4-7) also looks forward to the last days.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Superscriptions. - Jer 46:1 contains the title for the whole collection of prophecies regarding the nations (הגּוים, as contrasted with Israel, mean the heathen nations), Jer 46-51. As to the formula, "What came as the word of Jahveh to Jeremiah," etc., cf. the remarks on Jer 14:1. - In Jer 46:2, the special heading of this chapter begins with the word מצרים .למצרים is subordinated by ל to the general title, - properly, "with regard to Egypt:" cf. למואב, etc., Jer 48:1; Jer 49:1, Jer 49:7,Jer 49:23, Jer 49:28, also Jer 23:9. This chapter contains two prophecies regarding Egypt, Jer 46:2-12, and vv. 13-28. למצרים refers to both. After this there follows an account of the occasion for the first of these two prophecies, in the words, "Concerning the army of Pharaoh-Necho, the king of Egypt, which was at the river Euphrates, near Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah." נכו, as in Ch2 35:20, or נכּה, as in Kg2 23:29, in lxx Νεχαώ; Egyptian, according to Brugsch (Hist. d'Egypte, i. p. 252), Nekaaou; in Herodotus Νεκώς, - is said by Manetho to have been the sixth king of the twenty-sixth (Sate) dynasty, the second Pharaoh of this name, the son of Psammetichus I, and grandson of Necho I. Brugsch says he reigned from 611 to 595 b.c. See on 2 Chr. 23:29. The two relative clauses are co-ordinate, i.e., אשׁר in each case depends on חיל. The first clause merely states where Pharaoh's army was, the second tells what befall it at the Euphrates. It is to this that the following prophecy refers. Pharaoh-Necho, soon after ascending the throne, in the last year of Josiah's reign (610 b.c.), had landed in Palestine, at the bay of Acre, with the view of subjugating Hither Asia as far as the Euphrates, and had defeated the slain King Josiah, who marched out against him. He next deposed Jehoahaz, whom the people had raised to the throne as Josiah's successor, and carried him to Egypt, after having substituted Eliakim, the elder brother of Jehoahaz, and made him his vassal-king, under the name of Jehoiakim. When he had thus laid Judah under tribute, he advanced farther into Syria, towards the Euphrates, and had reached Carchemish on that river, as is stated in this verse: there his army was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim (606 b.c.); see on Kg2 23:29. Carchemish is Κιρκήσιον, Circesium, or Cercusium of the classical writers, (Note: See the opinion of Rawlinson in Smith's Bible Dictionary, vol. i. p. 278. - Tr.) Arabic karqi=si=yat, a fortified city at the junction of the Chebar with the Euphrates, built on the peninsula formed by the two rivers (Ammian. Marc. xxiii. 5, Procop. bell. Pers. ii. 5, and Maras. under Karkesija). All that now remains of it are ruins, called by the modern Arabs Abu Psera, and situated on the Mesopotamian side of the Euphrates, where that river is joined by the Chebar (Ausland, 1864, S. 1058). This fortress was either taken, or at least besieged, by Necho. The statement, "in the fourth year of Jehoiakim," can be referred exegetically only to the time of the defeat of the Egyptians at Carchemish, or the year of the battle, and is actually so understood by most interpreters. No one but Niebuhr (Gesch. Ass. u. Babl. S. 59, 86, 370ff.) alters the date of the battle, which he places in the third year of Jehoiakim, partly from consideration of Dan 1:1, partly from other chronological calculations; he would refer the date given in our verse to the time when the following song was composed or published. But Dan 1:1 does not necessarily require us to make any such assumption (see on that passage), and the other chronological computations are quite uncertain. Exegetically, it is as impossible to insert a period after "which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon smote" (Nieb. p. 86, note 3), as to connect the date "in the fourth year of Jehoiakim" with "which word came to Jeremiah" (Jer 46:10). The title in Jer 46:1 certainly does not refer specially to the prophecy about Egypt, but to על־הגּוים. But if we wished to make the whole of Jer 46:2 dependent on 'אשׁר היה דבר , which would, at all events, be a forced, unnatural construction, then, from the combination of the title in Jer 46:1 with the specification of time at the end of Jer 46:2, it would follow that all the prophecies regarding the nations had come to Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, - which would contradict what is said in the heading to the oracle against Elam (Jer 49:34), not to mention the oracle against Babylon. Moreover, there is nothing to prevent us from assuming that the first prophecy against Egypt was revealed to Jeremiah, and uttered by him, in the same fourth year of Jehoiakim in which Necho was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar. In this way, the argument brought forward by Niebuhr in support of his forced interpretation, viz., that all specifications of time in the addresses of Jeremiah refer to the period of composition, loses all its force. In Jer 45:1 also, and in Jer 51:9, the time when the event occurred coincides with the time when the utterance regarding it was pronounced. Although we assume this to hold in the case before us, yet it by no means follows that what succeeds, in Jer 46:3-12, is not a prophecy, but a song or lyric celebrating so important a battle, "the picture of an event that had already occurred," as Niebuhr, Ewald, and Hitzig assume. This neither follows from the statement in the title, "which Nebuchadnezzar in the fourth year of Jehoiakim smote," nor from the contents of the succeeding address. The superscription does not naturally belong to what Jeremiah has said or uttered, but must have been prefixed, for the first time, only when the address was committed to writing and inserted in the collection, and this not till after the battle had been fought; but it is evident that the address is to be viewed as substantially a prophecy (see Jer 46:6 and Jer 46:10), although Jeremiah depicts, in the most lively and dramatic way, not merely the preparation of the mighty host, Jer 46:3, and its formidable advance, Jer 46:7-9, but also its flight and annihilation, in Jer 46:5 and in Jer 46:10-12.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Superscriptions. - Jer 46:1 contains the title for the whole collection of prophecies regarding the nations (הגּוים, as contrasted with Israel, mean the heathen nations), Jer 46-51. As to the formula, "What came as the word of Jahveh to Jeremiah," etc., cf. the remarks on Jer 14:1. - In Jer 46:2, the special heading of this chapter begins with the word מצרים .למצרים is subordinated by ל to the general title, - properly, "with regard to Egypt:" cf. למואב, etc., Jer 48:1; Jer 49:1, Jer 49:7,Jer 49:23, Jer 49:28, also Jer 23:9. This chapter contains two prophecies regarding Egypt, Jer 46:2-12, and vv. 13-28. למצרים refers to both. After this there follows an account of the occasion for the first of these two prophecies, in the words, "Concerning the army of Pharaoh-Necho, the king of Egypt, which was at the river Euphrates, near Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah." נכו, as in Ch2 35:20, or נכּה, as in Kg2 23:29, in lxx Νεχαώ; Egyptian, according to Brugsch (Hist. d'Egypte, i. p. 252), Nekaaou; in Herodotus Νεκώς, - is said by Manetho to have been the sixth king of the twenty-sixth (Sate) dynasty, the second Pharaoh of this name, the son of Psammetichus I, and grandson of Necho I. Brugsch says he reigned from 611 to 595 b.c. See on 2 Chr. 23:29. The two relative clauses are co-ordinate, i.e., אשׁר in each case depends on חיל. The first clause merely states where Pharaoh's army was, the second tells what befall it at the Euphrates. It is to this that the following prophecy refers. Pharaoh-Necho, soon after ascending the throne, in the last year of Josiah's reign (610 b.c.), had landed in Palestine, at the bay of Acre, with the view of subjugating Hither Asia as far as the Euphrates, and had defeated the slain King Josiah, who marched out against him. He next deposed Jehoahaz, whom the people had raised to the throne as Josiah's successor, and carried him to Egypt, after having substituted Eliakim, the elder brother of Jehoahaz, and made him his vassal-king, under the name of Jehoiakim. When he had thus laid Judah under tribute, he advanced farther into Syria, towards the Euphrates, and had reached Carchemish on that river, as is stated in this verse: there his army was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim (606 b.c.); see on Kg2 23:29. Carchemish is Κιρκήσιον, Circesium, or Cercusium of the classical writers,

(Note: See the opinion of Rawlinson in Smith's Bible Dictionary, vol. i. p. 278. - Tr.)

Arabic karqi=si=yat, a fortified city at the junction of the Chebar with the Euphrates, built on the peninsula formed by the two rivers (Ammian. Marc. xxiii. 5, Procop. bell. Pers. ii. 5, and Maras. under Karkesija). All that now remains of it are ruins, called by the modern Arabs Abu Psera, and situated on the Mesopotamian side of the Euphrates, where that river is joined by the Chebar (Ausland, 1864, S. 1058). This fortress was either taken, or at least besieged, by Necho. The statement, "in the fourth year of Jehoiakim," can be referred exegetically only to the time of the defeat of the Egyptians at Carchemish, or the year of the battle, and is actually so understood by most interpreters. No one but Niebuhr (Gesch. Ass. u. Babl. S. 59, 86, 370ff.) alters the date of the battle, which he places in the third year of Jehoiakim, partly from consideration of Dan 1:1, partly from other chronological calculations; he would refer the date given in our verse to the time when the following song was composed or published. But Dan 1:1 does not necessarily require us to make any such assumption (see on that passage), and the other chronological computations are quite uncertain. Exegetically, it is as impossible to insert a period after "which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon smote" (Nieb. p. 86, note 3), as to connect the date "in the fourth year of Jehoiakim" with "which word came to Jeremiah" (Jer 46:10). The title in Jer 46:1 certainly does not refer specially to the prophecy about Egypt, but to על־הגּוים. But if we wished to make the whole of Jer 46:2 dependent on 'אשׁר היה דבר , which would, at all events, be a forced, unnatural construction, then, from the combination of the title in Jer 46:1 with the specification of time at the end of Jer 46:2, it would follow that all the prophecies regarding the nations had come to Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, - which would contradict what is said in the heading to the oracle against Elam (Jer 49:34), not to mention the oracle against Babylon.

Moreover, there is nothing to prevent us from assuming that the first prophecy against Egypt was revealed to Jeremiah, and uttered by him, in the same fourth year of Jehoiakim in which Necho was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar. In this way, the argument brought forward by Niebuhr in support of his forced interpretation, viz., that all specifications of time in the addresses of Jeremiah refer to the period of composition, loses all its force. In Jer 45:1 also, and in Jer 51:9, the time when the event occurred coincides with the time when the utterance regarding it was pronounced. Although we assume this to hold in the case before us, yet it by no means follows that what succeeds, in Jer 46:3-12, is not a prophecy, but a song or lyric celebrating so important a battle, "the picture of an event that had already occurred," as Niebuhr, Ewald, and Hitzig assume. This neither follows from the statement in the title, "which Nebuchadnezzar in the fourth year of Jehoiakim smote," nor from the contents of the succeeding address. The superscription does not naturally belong to what Jeremiah has said or uttered, but must have been prefixed, for the first time, only when the address was committed to writing and inserted in the collection, and this not till after the battle had been fought; but it is evident that the address is to be viewed as substantially a prophecy (see Jer 46:6 and Jer 46:10), although Jeremiah depicts, in the most lively and dramatic way, not merely the preparation of the mighty host, Jer 46:3, and its formidable advance, Jer 46:7-9, but also its flight and annihilation, in Jer 46:5 and in Jer 46:10-12.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
The word - This verse contains the title of all the ensuing discourses; for, tho' there be some verses in these chapters that relate to the Jews, yet they are all concerning their restoration. The prophecies of judgments from the beginning of this chapter to the fifty - second, are all against foreign nations, which are called Gentiles.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
The word of the Lord - against the Gentiles - This is a general title to the following collection of prophecies, written concerning different nations, which had less or more connection with the Jews, either as enemies, neighbors, or allies. They were not written at the same time; and though some of them bear dates, yet it would be difficult to give them any chronological arrangement. Dahler's mode of ascertaining the times of their delivery may be seen in the table in the introduction.

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⁴ In those days [03117], and in that time [06256], saith [05002] the LORD [03068], the children [01121] of Israel [03478] shall come [0935], they and the children [01121] of Judah [03063] together [03162], going [01980] and weeping [01058]: they shall go [03212], and seek [01245] the LORD [03068] their God [0430].
⁵ They shall ask [07592] the way [01870] to Zion [06726] with their faces [06440] thitherward [02008], saying, Come [0935], and let us join [03867] ourselves to the LORD [03068] in a perpetual [05769] covenant [01285] that shall not be forgotten [07911].
⁶ My people [05971] hath been lost [06] sheep [06629]: their shepherds [07462] have caused them to go astray [08582], they have turned them away [07725] [07726] on the mountains [02022]: they have gone [01980] from mountain [02022] to hill [01389], they have forgotten [07911] their restingplace [07258].
⁷ All that found [04672] them have devoured [0398] them: and their adversaries [06862] said [0559], We offend [0816] not, because they have sinned [02398] against the LORD [03068], the habitation [05116] of justice [06664], even the LORD [03068], the hope [04723] of their fathers [01].

²⁶ And [2532] so [3779] all [3956] Israel [2474] shall be saved [4982]: as [2531] it is written [1125], There shall come [2240] out of [1537] Sion [4622] the Deliverer [4506], and [2532] shall turn away [654] ungodliness [763] from [575] Jacob [2384]:

³ And I will bless [01288] them that bless [01288] thee, and curse [0779] him that curseth [07043] thee: and in thee shall all families [04940] of the earth [0127] be blessed [01288].

² And I will make of thee [06213] a great [01419] nation [01471], and I will bless [01288] thee, and make [01431] thy name [08034] great [01431]; and thou shalt be a blessing [01293]:

¹⁷ And [2532] I saw [1492] an [1520] angel [32] standing [2476] in [1722] the sun [2246]; and [2532] he cried [2896] with a loud [3173] voice [5456], saying [3004] to all [3956] the fowls [3732] that fly [4072] in [1722] the midst of heaven [3321], Come [1205] and [2532] gather yourselves together [4863] unto [1519] the supper [1173] of the great [3173] God [2316];

¹⁴ For [1063] they are [1526] the spirits [4151] of devils [1142], working [4160] miracles [4592], which go forth [1607] [3739] [1607] unto [1909] the kings [935] of the earth [1093] and [2532] of the whole [3650] world [3625], to gather [4863] them [846] to [1519] the battle [4171] of that [1565] great [3173] day [2250] of God [2316] Almighty [3841].

³² And [2532] before [1715] him [846] shall be gathered [4863] all [3956] nations [1484]: and [2532] he shall separate [873] them [846] one [240] from [575] another [240], as [5618] a shepherd [4166] divideth [873] his sheep [4263] from [575] the goats [2056]:

²⁸ Fear [03372] thou not, O Jacob [03290] my servant [05650], saith [05002] the LORD [03068]: for I am with thee; for I will make [06213] a full end [03617] of all the nations [01471] whither I have driven [05080] thee: but I will not make [06213] a full end [03617] of thee, but correct [03256] thee in measure [04941]; yet will I not leave thee wholly [05352] unpunished [05352].

²⁷ But fear [03372] not thou, O my servant [05650] Jacob [03290], and be not dismayed [02865], O Israel [03478]: for, behold, I will save [03467] thee from afar off [07350], and thy seed [02233] from the land [0776] of their captivity [07628]; and Jacob [03290] shall return [07725], and be in rest [08252] and at ease [07599], and none shall make him afraid [02729].

¹⁰ For this is the day [03117] of the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] of hosts [06635], a day [03117] of vengeance [05360], that he may avenge [05358] him of his adversaries [06862]: and the sword [02719] shall devour [0398], and it shall be satiate [07646] and made drunk [07301] with their blood [01818]: for the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] of hosts [06635] hath a sacrifice [02077] in the north [06828] country [0776] by the river [05104] Euphrates [06578].
¹¹ Go up [05927] into Gilead [01568], and take [03947] balm [06875], O virgin [01330], the daughter [01323] of Egypt [04714]: in vain [07723] shalt thou use many [07235] medicines [07499]; for thou shalt not be cured [08585].
¹² The nations [01471] have heard [08085] of thy shame [07036], and thy cry [06682] hath filled [04390] the land [0776]: for the mighty man [01368] hath stumbled [03782] against the mighty [01368], and they are fallen [05307] both [08147] together [03162].

⁵ Wherefore have I seen [07200] them dismayed [02844] and turned [05472] away back [0268]? and their mighty ones [01368] are beaten down [03807], and are fled [05127] apace [04498], and look not back [06437]: for fear [04032] was round about [05439], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].

⁷ Who is this that cometh up [05927] as a flood [02975], whose waters [04325] are moved [01607] as the rivers [05104]?
⁸ Egypt [04714] riseth up [05927] like a flood [02975], and his waters [04325] are moved [01607] like the rivers [05104]; and he saith [0559], I will go up [05927], and will cover [03680] the earth [0776]; I will destroy [06] the city [05892] and the inhabitants [03427] thereof.
⁹ Come up [05927], ye horses [05483]; and rage [01984], ye chariots [07393]; and let the mighty men [01368] come forth [03318]; the Ethiopians [03568] and the Libyans [06316], that handle [08610] the shield [04043]; and the Lydians [03866], that handle [08610] and bend [01869] the bow [07198].

³ Order [06186] ye the buckler [04043] and shield [06793], and draw near [05066] to battle [04421].

⁶ Let not the swift [07031] flee away [05127], nor the mighty man [01368] escape [04422]; they shall stumble [03782], and fall [05307] toward the north [06828] by [03027] the river [05104] Euphrates [06578].

³ Order [06186] ye the buckler [04043] and shield [06793], and draw near [05066] to battle [04421].
⁴ Harness [0631] the horses [05483]; and get up [05927], ye horsemen [06571], and stand forth [03320] with your helmets [03553]; furbish [04838] the spears [07420], and put on [03847] the brigandines [05630].
⁵ Wherefore have I seen [07200] them dismayed [02844] and turned [05472] away back [0268]? and their mighty ones [01368] are beaten down [03807], and are fled [05127] apace [04498], and look not back [06437]: for fear [04032] was round about [05439], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
⁶ Let not the swift [07031] flee away [05127], nor the mighty man [01368] escape [04422]; they shall stumble [03782], and fall [05307] toward the north [06828] by [03027] the river [05104] Euphrates [06578].
⁷ Who is this that cometh up [05927] as a flood [02975], whose waters [04325] are moved [01607] as the rivers [05104]?
⁸ Egypt [04714] riseth up [05927] like a flood [02975], and his waters [04325] are moved [01607] like the rivers [05104]; and he saith [0559], I will go up [05927], and will cover [03680] the earth [0776]; I will destroy [06] the city [05892] and the inhabitants [03427] thereof.
⁹ Come up [05927], ye horses [05483]; and rage [01984], ye chariots [07393]; and let the mighty men [01368] come forth [03318]; the Ethiopians [03568] and the Libyans [06316], that handle [08610] the shield [04043]; and the Lydians [03866], that handle [08610] and bend [01869] the bow [07198].
¹⁰ For this is the day [03117] of the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] of hosts [06635], a day [03117] of vengeance [05360], that he may avenge [05358] him of his adversaries [06862]: and the sword [02719] shall devour [0398], and it shall be satiate [07646] and made drunk [07301] with their blood [01818]: for the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] of hosts [06635] hath a sacrifice [02077] in the north [06828] country [0776] by the river [05104] Euphrates [06578].
¹¹ Go up [05927] into Gilead [01568], and take [03947] balm [06875], O virgin [01330], the daughter [01323] of Egypt [04714]: in vain [07723] shalt thou use many [07235] medicines [07499]; for thou shalt not be cured [08585].
¹² The nations [01471] have heard [08085] of thy shame [07036], and thy cry [06682] hath filled [04390] the land [0776]: for the mighty man [01368] hath stumbled [03782] against the mighty [01368], and they are fallen [05307] both [08147] together [03162].

⁹ We would have healed [07495] Babylon [0894], but she is not healed [07495]: forsake [05800] her, and let us go [03212] every one [0376] into his own country [0776]: for her judgment [04941] reacheth [05060] unto heaven [08064], and is lifted up [05375] even to the skies [07834].

¹ The word [01697] that Jeremiah [03414] the prophet [05030] spake [01696] unto Baruch [01263] the son [01121] of Neriah [05374], when he had written [03789] these words [01697] in a book [05612] at the mouth [06310] of Jeremiah [03414], in the fourth [07243] year [08141] of Jehoiakim [03079] the son [01121] of Josiah [02977] king [04428] of Judah [03063], saying [0559],

³⁴ The word [01697] of the LORD [03068] that came to Jeremiah [03414] the prophet [05030] against Elam [05867] in the beginning [07225] of the reign [04438] of Zedekiah [06667] king [04428] of Judah [03063], saying [0559],

¹ The word [01697] of the LORD [03068] which came to Jeremiah [03414] the prophet [05030] against the Gentiles [01471];

¹ In the third [07969] year [08141] of the reign [04438] of Jehoiakim [03079] king [04428] of Judah [03063] came [0935] Nebuchadnezzar [05019] king [04428] of Babylon [0894] unto Jerusalem [03389], and besieged [06696] it.

²⁹ In his days [03117] Pharaohnechoh [06549] king [04428] of Egypt [04714] went up [05927] against the king [04428] of Assyria [0804] to the river [05104] Euphrates [06578]: and king [04428] Josiah [02977] went [03212] against [07125] him; and he slew [04191] him at Megiddo [04023], when he had seen [07200] him.

²⁰ After [0310] all this, when Josiah [02977] had prepared [03559] the temple [01004], Necho [05224] king [04428] of Egypt [04714] came up [05927] to fight [03898] against Carchemish [03751] by Euphrates [06578]: and Josiah [02977] went out [03318] against [07125] him.

² Against Egypt [04714], against the army [02428] of Pharaohnecho [06549] king [04428] of Egypt [04714], which was by the river [05104] Euphrates [06578] in Carchemish [03751], which Nebuchadrezzar [05019] king [04428] of Babylon [0894] smote [05221] in the fourth [07243] year [08141] of Jehoiakim [03079] the son [01121] of Josiah [02977] king [04428] of Judah [03063].
³ Order [06186] ye the buckler [04043] and shield [06793], and draw near [05066] to battle [04421].
⁴ Harness [0631] the horses [05483]; and get up [05927], ye horsemen [06571], and stand forth [03320] with your helmets [03553]; furbish [04838] the spears [07420], and put on [03847] the brigandines [05630].
⁵ Wherefore have I seen [07200] them dismayed [02844] and turned [05472] away back [0268]? and their mighty ones [01368] are beaten down [03807], and are fled [05127] apace [04498], and look not back [06437]: for fear [04032] was round about [05439], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
⁶ Let not the swift [07031] flee away [05127], nor the mighty man [01368] escape [04422]; they shall stumble [03782], and fall [05307] toward the north [06828] by [03027] the river [05104] Euphrates [06578].
⁷ Who is this that cometh up [05927] as a flood [02975], whose waters [04325] are moved [01607] as the rivers [05104]?
⁸ Egypt [04714] riseth up [05927] like a flood [02975], and his waters [04325] are moved [01607] like the rivers [05104]; and he saith [0559], I will go up [05927], and will cover [03680] the earth [0776]; I will destroy [06] the city [05892] and the inhabitants [03427] thereof.
⁹ Come up [05927], ye horses [05483]; and rage [01984], ye chariots [07393]; and let the mighty men [01368] come forth [03318]; the Ethiopians [03568] and the Libyans [06316], that handle [08610] the shield [04043]; and the Lydians [03866], that handle [08610] and bend [01869] the bow [07198].
¹⁰ For this is the day [03117] of the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] of hosts [06635], a day [03117] of vengeance [05360], that he may avenge [05358] him of his adversaries [06862]: and the sword [02719] shall devour [0398], and it shall be satiate [07646] and made drunk [07301] with their blood [01818]: for the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] of hosts [06635] hath a sacrifice [02077] in the north [06828] country [0776] by the river [05104] Euphrates [06578].
¹¹ Go up [05927] into Gilead [01568], and take [03947] balm [06875], O virgin [01330], the daughter [01323] of Egypt [04714]: in vain [07723] shalt thou use many [07235] medicines [07499]; for thou shalt not be cured [08585].
¹² The nations [01471] have heard [08085] of thy shame [07036], and thy cry [06682] hath filled [04390] the land [0776]: for the mighty man [01368] hath stumbled [03782] against the mighty [01368], and they are fallen [05307] both [08147] together [03162].

⁹ Mine heart [03820] within [07130] me is broken [07665] because of the prophets [05030]; all my bones [06106] shake [07363]; I am like a drunken [07910] man [0376], and like a man [01397] whom wine [03196] hath overcome [05674], because [06440] of the LORD [03068], and because of the words [01697] of his holiness [06944].

²⁸ Concerning Kedar [06938], and concerning the kingdoms [04467] of Hazor [02674], which Nebuchadrezzar [05019] king [04428] of Babylon [0894] shall smite [05221], thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; Arise [06965] ye, go up [05927] to Kedar [06938], and spoil [07703] the men [01121] of the east [06924].

²³ Concerning Damascus [01834]. Hamath [02574] is confounded [0954], and Arpad [0774]: for they have heard [08085] evil [07451] tidings [08052]: they are fainthearted [04127]; there is sorrow [01674] on the sea [03220]; it cannot [03201] be quiet [08252].

⁷ Concerning Edom [0123], thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; Is wisdom [02451] no more in Teman [08487]? is counsel [06098] perished [06] from the prudent [0995]? is their wisdom [02451] vanished [05628]?

¹ Concerning the Ammonites [01121] [05983], thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; Hath Israel [03478] no sons [01121]? hath he no heir [03423]? why then doth their king [04428] inherit [03423] Gad [01410], and his people [05971] dwell [03427] in his cities [05892]?

¹ Against Moab [04124] thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the God [0430] of Israel [03478]; Woe [01945] unto Nebo [05015]! for it is spoiled [07703]: Kiriathaim [07156] is confounded [03001] and taken [03920]: Misgab [04869] is confounded [03001] and dismayed [02865].

¹ The word [01697] of the LORD [03068] that came to Jeremiah [03414] concerning [01697] the dearth [01226].

¹ The word [01697] of the LORD [03068] which came to Jeremiah [03414] the prophet [05030] against the Gentiles [01471];