Jeremiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Jeremiah 26 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
2 For Egypt, against the power of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim king of Judah.
1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh: 2 “Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
3 Take up arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;
3 It may be they will listen, and every man turn from his evil way, that I may relent from the evil which I intend to do to them because of the evil of their doings.’”
4 and harness the horses: mount, ye horsemen, and stand ready in your helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breastplates.
4 You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law which I have set before you,
5 Why do they fear, and turn back? even because their mighty men shall be slain: they have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not rallied, saith the Lord.
5 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them—but you have not listened—
6 Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north: the [forces] at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.
6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.’”
7 Who is this [that] shall come up as a river, and as rivers roll [their] waves?
7 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in Yahweh’s house.
8 The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river: and he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth, and will destroy the dwellers in it.
8 When Jeremiah had finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!
9 Mount ye the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, ye warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, ye Lydians, bend the bow.
9 Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant’?” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.
10 And that day [shall be] to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to take vengeance on his enemies: and the sword of the Lord shall devour, and be glutted, and be drunken with their blood: for the Lord [has] a sacrifice from the land of the north at the river Euphrates.
10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to Yahweh’s house; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house.
11 Go up to Gilead, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no help in thee.
11 Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”
12 The nations have heard thy voice, and the land has been filled with thy cry: for the warriors have fainted fighting one against another, [and] both are fallen together.
12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.
13 The words which the Lord spoke by Jeremiah, concerning the coming of the king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt.
13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; then Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.
14 Proclaim [it] at Migdol, and declare [it] at Memphis: say ye, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured thy yew tree.
14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes.
15 Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.
15 Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
16 And thy multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one said to his neighbor, Let us arise, and return into our country to our people, from the Grecian sword.
16 Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”
17 Call ye the name of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, Saon esbeie moed.
17 Then certain of the elders of the land rose up, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
18 [As] I live, saith the Lord God, he shall come as Tabor among the mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.
18 “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’
19 O daughter of Egypt dwelling [at home], prepare thee stuff for removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because there are no inhabitants in it.
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”
20 Egypt is a fair heifer, [but] destruction from the north is come upon her.
20 There was also a man who prophesied in Yahweh’s name, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath Jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
21 Also her hired [soldiers] in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord: they stood not, for the day of destruction was come upon them, and the time of their retribution.
21 When Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men and all the princes heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.
22 Their voice is as [that] of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the sand; they shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.
22 Then Jehoiakim the king sent Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him into Egypt.
23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for [their number] cannot at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.
23 They fetched Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
24 The daughter of Egypt is confounded; she is delivered into the hands of a people from the north.
24 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they didn’t give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
25 Behold, I [will] avenge Ammon her son upon Pharaoh, and upon them that trust in him.
25 Not in this translation
27 But fear not thou, my servant Jacob, neither be thou alarmed, Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be at ease, and sleep, and there shall be no one to trouble him.
27 Not in this translation
28 Fear not thou, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; for I am with thee: she [that was] without fear and in luxury, has been delivered up: for I will make a full end of every nation among whom I have thrust thee forth; but I will not cause thee to fail: yet will I chastise thee in the way of judgment, and will not hold thee entirely guiltless.
28 Not in this translation
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Deuteronomy 4:2; Acts 20:27; Matthew 28:20; Jeremiah 1:17; Jeremiah 19:14
- 3 Jeremiah 36:3; Jeremiah 18:7–10; Jonah 4:2; Isaiah 1:16–19; Jonah 3:8–10
- 4 1 Kings 9:6; Isaiah 1:20; Jeremiah 44:10; Deuteronomy 4:8; 2 Chronicles 7:19–20
- 5 Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremiah 7:13; 2 Kings 9:7; Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 25:3–4
- 6 Jeremiah 24:9; 2 Kings 22:19; Isaiah 65:15; Jeremiah 25:18; Daniel 9:11
- 7 Jeremiah 5:31; Micah 3:11; Matthew 21:15; Acts 5:17; Acts 4:1–6
- 8 Lamentations 4:13–14; Jeremiah 18:18; Acts 7:52; Acts 5:33; Matthew 22:6
- 9 Acts 4:17–19; Matthew 27:20; Matthew 21:23; Acts 21:30; Isaiah 29:21
- 10 Jeremiah 36:10; Jeremiah 36:12–19; Ezekiel 22:6; Jeremiah 26:24; 2 Kings 15:35
- 11 Jeremiah 38:4; Matthew 26:66; Deuteronomy 18:20; Acts 6:11–14; Acts 25:2–13
- 12 Acts 5:29; Acts 4:19; Jeremiah 26:15; Jeremiah 1:17–18; Jeremiah 26:2
- 13 Jonah 4:2; Jonah 3:9; Isaiah 1:19; Jeremiah 26:3; Isaiah 55:7
- 14 Joshua 9:25; 2 Samuel 15:26; Jeremiah 38:5; Daniel 3:16
- 15 Numbers 35:33; Proverbs 6:17; Matthew 26:25; Jeremiah 7:6; Acts 7:60
- 16 Acts 23:29; Acts 25:25; Acts 5:34–39; Acts 23:9; Jeremiah 36:19
- 17 Acts 5:34; Micah 1:1
- 18 Zechariah 8:3; Micah 1:1; Nehemiah 4:2; Jeremiah 17:3; Micah 3:12–4:1
- 19 2 Samuel 24:16; Exodus 32:14; 2 Chronicles 29:6–11; Isaiah 37:15–20; Isaiah 37:1
- 20 1 Samuel 7:2; Joshua 9:17; Joshua 15:60; 1 Samuel 6:21; Joshua 18:14
- 21 Matthew 10:23; 2 Chronicles 16:10; Jeremiah 36:26; Matthew 14:5; Proverbs 29:25
- 22 Jeremiah 36:12; 2 Kings 22:14; 2 Kings 22:12; Proverbs 29:12; Psalm 12:8
- 23 Jeremiah 2:30; Revelation 11:7; Jeremiah 36:30; Acts 12:1–3; Matthew 14:10
- 24 Jeremiah 1:18–19; Jeremiah 40:5–7; Jeremiah 39:14; 1 Kings 18:4; 2 Kings 22:12–14
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