Jeremiah · Bible in Basic English
Jeremiah 46 Bible in Basic English
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2 Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
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3 Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight.
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4 Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.
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5 What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.
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6 Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.
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7 Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?
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8 Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people.
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9 Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.
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10 But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.
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11 Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.
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12 Your shame has come to the ears of the nations, and the earth is full of your cry: for the strong man is falling against the strong, they have come down together.
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13 The word which the Lord said to Jeremiah the prophet, of how Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, would come and make war on the land of Egypt.
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14 Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.
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15 Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.
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16 ... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.
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17 Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.
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18 By my life, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies, truly, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so will he come.
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19 O daughter living in Egypt, make ready the vessels of a prisoner: for Noph will become a waste, it will be burned up and become unpeopled.
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20 Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
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21 And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.
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22 She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.
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23 They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.
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24 The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.
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25 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on Amon of No and on Pharaoh and on those who put their faith in him;
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26 And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.
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27 But have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and in peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.
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28 Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.
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Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 1:10; Zechariah 2:8; Numbers 23:9; Romans 3:29; Jeremiah 4:7
- 2 2 Kings 23:29; Ezekiel 29:1–21; Jeremiah 25:1; Jeremiah 45:1; Jeremiah 25:19
- 3 Isaiah 21:5; Nahum 2:1; Jeremiah 51:11–12; Nahum 3:14; Joel 3:9
- 4 Ezekiel 21:9–11; Jeremiah 51:3; 2 Chronicles 26:14; Ezekiel 21:28; 1 Samuel 17:5
- 5 Jeremiah 49:29; Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 46:21; Jeremiah 46:15; Jeremiah 20:3–4
- 6 Daniel 11:19; Jeremiah 46:12; Amos 9:1–3; Jeremiah 46:16; Jeremiah 6:1
- 7 Jeremiah 47:2; Daniel 11:22; Isaiah 8:7–8; Revelation 12:15; Daniel 9:26
- 8 Ezekiel 32:2; Ezekiel 29:3; Isaiah 10:13–16; Exodus 15:9–10; Isaiah 37:24–26
- 9 Ezekiel 27:10; Isaiah 66:19; Nahum 3:9; Jeremiah 47:3; Acts 2:10
- 10 Deuteronomy 32:42; Joel 1:15; Jeremiah 46:2; Zephaniah 1:7–8; Jeremiah 46:6
- 11 Jeremiah 8:22; Micah 1:9; Jeremiah 14:17; Luke 8:43–44; Isaiah 47:1
- 12 Nahum 3:8–10; Jeremiah 46:6; Jeremiah 14:2; Isaiah 19:2; Jeremiah 49:21
- 13 Jeremiah 44:30; Jeremiah 43:10–13; Isaiah 29:1–24; Isaiah 19:1–25
- 14 Jeremiah 46:10; Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 43:8–9; Jeremiah 2:30; Isaiah 1:20
- 15 Psalm 68:2; Isaiah 66:15–16; Jeremiah 46:5; Psalm 18:14; Psalm 18:39
- 16 Leviticus 26:36–37; Jeremiah 51:9; Jeremiah 46:21; Jeremiah 50:16; Jeremiah 46:6
- 17 Isaiah 19:11–16; Exodus 15:9; 1 Kings 20:10; Isaiah 37:27–29; Ezekiel 31:18
- 18 Jeremiah 48:15; Joshua 19:22; Judges 4:6; Isaiah 47:4; Malachi 1:14
- 19 Isaiah 20:4; Jeremiah 48:18; Ezekiel 30:13; Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 51:29–30
- 20 Hosea 10:11; Jeremiah 47:2; Jeremiah 46:6; Jeremiah 46:10; Jeremiah 1:14
- 21 2 Kings 7:6; Obadiah 13; Jeremiah 46:5; Amos 6:4; Micah 7:4
- 22 Isaiah 29:4; Isaiah 37:24; Jeremiah 51:20–23; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 10:15
- 23 Judges 7:12; Judges 6:5; Joel 2:25; Revelation 9:2–10; Isaiah 10:18
- 24 Jeremiah 1:15; Ezekiel 29:1–21; Jeremiah 46:11; Jeremiah 46:19–20; Psalm 137:8
- 25 Zephaniah 2:11; Isaiah 20:5–6; Exodus 12:12; Jeremiah 43:12–13; Jeremiah 42:14–16
- 26 Ezekiel 32:11; Jeremiah 44:30; Ezekiel 29:8–14; Jeremiah 49:39; Jeremiah 48:47
- 27 Isaiah 43:5; Isaiah 43:1; Jeremiah 30:10–11; Isaiah 41:13–14; Jeremiah 50:19
- 28 Revelation 3:19; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Jeremiah 10:24; Jeremiah 4:27; Jeremiah 30:11
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Jeremiah: a shorter book in a different order
The Greek Septuagint of Jeremiah is markedly shorter than the Hebrew text and arranges the book differently: the oracles against the nations come in the middle, after 25:13, not at the end. Hebrew fragments from Qumran show that a shorter Hebrew form of Jeremiah really existed. Many scholars think Jeremiah circulated in two editions.