1 كلمة الرب التي صارت الى ارميا النبي عن الامم.2 عن مصر عن جيش فرعون نخو ملك مصر الذي كان على نهر الفرات في كركميش الذي ضربه نبوخذراصر ملك بابل في السنة الرابعة ليهوياقيم بن يوشيا ملك يهوذا3 اعدّوا المجن والترس وتقدموا للحرب.4 اسرجوا الخيل واصعدوا ايها الفرسان وانتصبوا بالخوذ. اصقلوا الرماح. البسوا الدروع.5 لماذا اراهم مرتعبين ومدبرين الى الوراء وقد تحطمت ابطالهم وفرّوا هاربين ولم يلتفتوا. الخوف حواليهم يقول الرب.6 الخفيف لا ينوص والبطل لا ينجو. في الشمال بجانب نهر الفرات عثروا وسقطوا.7 من هذا الصاعد كالنيل كانهار تتلاطم امواهها.8 تصعد مصر كالنيل وكانهار تتلاطم المياه. فيقول اصعد واغطي الارض. اهلك المدينة والساكنين فيها.9 اصعدي ايتها الخيل وهيجي ايتها المركبات ولتخرج الابطال. كوش وفوط القابضان المجن واللوديون القابضون والمادون القوس.10 فهذا اليوم للسيد رب الجنود يوم نقمة للانتقام من مبغضيه فياكل السيف ويشبع ويرتوي من دمهم. لان للسيد رب الجنود ذبيحة في ارض الشمال عند نهر الفرات.11 اصعدي الى جلعاد وخذي بلسانا يا عذراء بنت مصر. باطلا تكثرين العقاقير. لا رفادة لك.12 قد سمعت الامم بخزيك وقد ملأ الارض عويلك لان بطلا يصدم بطلا فيسقطان كلاهما معا13 الكلمة التي تكلم بها الرب الى ارميا النبي في مجيء نبوخذراصر ملك بابل ليضرب ارض مصر.14 اخبروا في مصر واسمعوا في مجدل واسمعوا في نوف وفي تحفنحيس قولوا انتصب وتهيأ لان السيف ياكل حواليك.15 لماذا انطرح مقتدروك. لا يقفون لان الرب قد طرحهم.16 كثر العاثرين حتى يسقط الواحد على صاحبه ويقولوا قوموا فنرجع الى شعبنا والى ارض ميلادنا من وجه السيف الصارم.17 قد نادوا هناك فرعون ملك مصر هالك. قد فات الميعاد.18 حيّ انا يقول الملك رب الجنود اسمه كتابور بين الجبال وككرمل عند البحر يأتي.19 اصنعي لنفسك أهبة جلاء ايتها البنت الساكنة مصر لان نوف تصير خربة وتحرق فلا ساكن.20 مصر عجلة حسنة جدا. الهلاك من الشمال جاء جاء.21 ايضا متسأجروها في وسطها كعجول صيرة. لانهم هم ايضا يرتدون يهربون معا. لم يقفوا لان يوم هلاكهم اتى عليهم وقت عقابهم.22 صوتها يمشي كحية لانهم يسيرون بجيش وقد جاءوا اليها بالفؤوس كمحتطبي حطب.23 يقطعون وعرها يقول الرب وان يكن لا يحصى لانهم قد كثروا اكثر من الجراد ولا عدد لهم.24 قد أخزيت بنت مصر ودفعت ليد شعب الشمال.25 قال رب الجنود اله اسرائيل. هانذا اعاقب آمون نو وفرعون ومصر وآلهتها وملوكها فرعون والمتوكلين عليه.26 وادفعهم ليد طالبي نفوسهم وليد نبوخذراصر ملك بابل وليد عبيده. ثم بعد ذلك تسكن كالايام القديمة يقول الرب27 وانت فلا تخف يا عبدي يعقوب ولا ترتعب يا اسرائيل لاني هانذا اخلصك من بعيد ونسلك من ارض سبيهم فيرجع يعقوب ويطمئن ويستريح ولا مخيف.28 اما انت يا عبدي يعقوب فلا تخف لاني انا معك لاني افني كل الامم الذين بددتك اليهم. اما انت فلا افنيك بل اؤدبك بالحق ولا ابرئك تبرئة

1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;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 you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.4 Harness the horses; and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.5 Why 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, said 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 comes up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?8 Egypt rises up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.9 Come up, you horses; and rage, you 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 has 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 shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.14 Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand fast, and prepare you; for the sword shall devour round about you.15 Why are your valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.16 He made many to fall, yes, one fell on 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 has passed the time appointed.18 As I live, said 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 you daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.21 Also her hired men are in the middle 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 on 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, said 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, said; 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, said the LORD.27 But fear not you, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar off, and your 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 you not, O Jacob my servant, said the LORD: for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you: but I will not make a full end of you, but correct you in measure; yet will I not leave you wholly unpunished.