2 Against Egypt against the army of Pharaohnecho 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

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

4 Harness the horses and get up ye horsemen and stand forth with your helmets furbish the spears and put on the brigandines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 Why are thy valiant men swept away they stood not because the LORD did drive them

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

17 They did cry there Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise he hath passed the time appointed

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

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

20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer but destruction cometh it cometh out of the north

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

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

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 __

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

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 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

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

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