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Jeremiah 46 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:1 - The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:3 - Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:4 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:5 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:7 - Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:11 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:12 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:13 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:14 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:15 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 - ... 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:17 - Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:18 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:20 - Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:24 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:25 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:26 - 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.
(cf. Jer 30:10, 11 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:27 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28 - 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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