1 Die woord van die HERE wat aangaande die volke tot die profeet Jeremia gekom het.
2 Oor Egipte. Oor die leër van Farao Nego, die koning van Egipte, wat by die Eufraatrivier by K rkemis was, wat Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel, verslaan het in die vierde jaar van Jojakim, die seun van Jos¡a, die koning van Juda --
3 Hou die klein en die groot skild klaar, en kom aan na die geveg!
4 Span die perde in, en klim op, o ruiters! En staan reg, met die helms op; maak blink die spiese, trek die pantsers aan.
5 Waarom sien ek -- hulle is verslae, hulle wyk agteruit? Ja, hulle helde is verslaan en vlug al verder sonder om om te draai. Daar is skrik rondom, spreek die HERE.
6 Die wat gou is, kan nie ontvlug nie, en die held kan nie ontkom nie; teen die noorde, aan die kant van die Eufraatrivier, het hulle gestruikel en geval.
7 Wie is dit wat daar oprys soos die Nyl, waarvan die waters klots soos strome?
8 Egipte rys op soos die Nyl en sy waters klots soos strome; en hy sê: Ek sal optrek, die aarde oordek, ek wil die stad verwoes en die wat daarin woon.
9 Trek op, perde, en raas, waens! En laat die helde uittrek: Kusiete en Put,ërs wat die skild hanteer, en Ludiete wat die boog hanteer en span.
10 Maar die dag behoort aan die Here HERE van die leërskare, 'n dag van wraak, om wraak te neem op sy teëstanders; en die swaard sal verslind en versadig en dronk word van hulle bloed; want die Here HERE van die leërskare het 'n slagoffer in die Noordland, by die Eufraatrivier.
11 Gaan op na G¡lead en gaan haal balsem, o jonkvrou, dogter van Egipte! Tevergeefs vermenigvuldig jy medisyne, daar is geen genesing vir jou nie.
12 Die nasies het van jou skande gehoor en die aarde is vol van jou geskreeu; want held het gestruikel teen held, hulle altwee het saam geval.
13 Die woord wat die HERE tot die profeet Jeremia gespreek het aangaande die koms van Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel, om Egipteland te verower.
14 Verkondig dit in Egipte en laat dit hoor in Migdol; ja, laat dit hoor in Nof en in Tagp nhes. Sê: Staan reg, en maak jou klaar, want die swaard het verslind wat rondom jou is.
15 Waarom is jou ruitery neergewerp? Dit het nie bly staan nie, omdat die HERE dit omgestoot het.
16 Hy het baie laat struikel, ja, die een val oor die ander, sodat hulle gesê het: Staan op en laat ons teruggaan na ons volk en na die land van ons geboorte weens die verdrukkende swaard.
17 Hulle het daar geroep: Farao, die koning van Egipte, is oorlogsrumoer; hy het die bepaalde tyd laat verbygaan.
18 So waar as Ek leef, spreek die Koning, wie se Naam is HERE van die leërskare, daar sal sekerlik een kom soos Tabor onder die berge en soos Karmel by die see.
19 Maak vir jou toebereidsels om in ballingskap te gaan, o inwoner, dogter van Egipte; want Nof sal 'n woesteny word en dit sal verniel word, sonder inwoner wees.
20 Egipte is 'n pragtige vers; 'n steekvlieg kom, dit kom van die noorde af.
21 Ook is haar huurtroepe daar by haar soos kalwers uit die stal; maar hulle het ook omgedraai, almal saam gevlug, hulle het nie bly staan nie; want die dag van hulle ondergang het oor hulle gekom, die tyd van hulle besoeking.
22 Haar geluid is soos van 'n slang wat wegseil; want met 'n leërmag trek hulle en kom na haar met byle soos houtkappers.
23 Hulle kap haar bos om, spreek die HERE; want hulle is onberekenbaar: want hulle is meer as sprinkane, sodat 'n mens hulle nie kan tel nie.
24 Die dogter van Egipte staan beskaamd; sy is oorgegee in die hand van die volk uit die Noorde.
25 Die HERE van die leërskare, die God van Israel, sê: Kyk, Ek doen besoeking oor Amon van No en oor Farao en Egipte en sy gode en sy konings, ja, oor Farao en die wat op hom vertrou;
26 en Ek sal hulle oorgee in die hand van die wat hulle lewe soek, en in die hand van Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel, en in die hand van sy dienaars. Maar daarna sal dit bewoon word soos in die dae van die voortyd, spreek die HERE.
27 Maar jy, my kneg Jakob, wees nie bevrees nie; en wees nie verskrik nie, o Israel! Want kyk, Ek verlos jou uit ver plekke en jou kroos uit die land van hulle gevangenskap; en Jakob sal terugkom en stil en gerus wees sonder dat iemand hom verskrik.
28 Jy, o my kneg Jakob, wees nie bevrees nie, spreek die HERE, want Ek is met jou. Want Ek sal 'n einde maak aan al die nasies waarheen Ek jou verdryf het; maar aan jou sal Ek geen einde maak nie, maar Ek sal jou tugtig met mate, al sal Ek jou sekerlik nie ongestraf laat bly nie.
1 The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations.
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.
3 Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight.
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.
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.
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.
7 Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17 Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.
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.
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.
20 Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
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.
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.
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.
24 The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.
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;
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.
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.
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.