rise up, I will cover the earth,I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.'9Prance, ye horses, and rush madly, ye chariots;And let the mighty men go forth:Cush and Put, that handle the shield,And the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow. 10For the Lord God of hosts shall have on that dayA day of vengeance, that He may avenge Him of His adversaries;And the sword shall devour and be satiate,And shall be made drunk with their blood;For the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrificeIn the north country by the river Euphrates.11Go up into Gilead, and take balm,O virgin daughter of Egypt;In vain dost thou use many medicines;There is no cure for thee.12The nations have heard of thy shame,And the earth is full of thy cry;For the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,They are fallen both of them together.
13The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14Declare ye in Egypt, and announce in Migdol,And announce in Noph and in Tahpanhes;Say ye: 'Stand forth, and prepare thee,For the sword hath devoured round about thee.'15Why is thy strong one overthrown?He stood not, because the Lord did thrust him down.16He made many to stumble;Yea, they fell one upon another,And said: 'Arise, and let us return to our own people,And to the land of our birth,From the oppressing sword.'17They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise;He hath let the appointed time pass by.'18As I live, saith the King,Whose name is the Lord of hosts,Surely like Tabor among the mountains,And like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.19O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt,Furnish thyself to go into captivity;For Noph shall become a desolation,And shall be laid waste, without inhabitant. 20Egypt is a very fair heifer;But the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.21Also her mercenaries in the midst of herAre like calves of the stall,For they also are turned back, they are fled away together,They did not stand;For the day of their calamity is come upon them,The time of their visitation.22The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's;For they march with an army,And come against her with axes,As hewers of wood.23They cut down her forest, saith the Lord,Though it cannot be searched;Because they are more than the locusts,And are innumerable.24The daughter of Egypt is put to shame;She is delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him; 26and 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 afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.
27But fear not thou, O Jacob My servant,Neither be dismayed, O Israel;For, lo, I will save thee from afar,And thy seed from the land of their captivity;And Jacob shall again be quiet and at ease,And none shall make him afraid.28Fear not thou, O Jacob My servant, saith the Lord,For I am with thee;For I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee,But I will not make a full end of thee;And I will correct thee in measure,But will not utterly destroy thee.
47The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2Thus saith the Lord:Behold, waters rise up out of the north,And shall become an overflowing stream,And they shall overflow the land and all that is therein,The city and them that dwell therein;And the men shall cry,And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones,At the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels,The fathers look not back to their childrenFor feebleness of hands;4Because of the day that comethTo spoil all the Philistines,To cut off from Tyre and ZidonEvery helper that remaineth;For the Lord will spoil the Philistines,The remnant of the isle of Caphtor.5Baldness is come upon Gaza,Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley;How long wilt thou cut thyself?6O thou sword of the Lord,How long will it be ere thou be quiet?Put up thyself into thy scabbard,Rest, and be still.7How canst thou be quiet?For the Lord hath given it a charge;Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore,There hath He appointed it.
48Of Moab.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled;Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken;Misgab is put to shame and dismayed.2The praise of Moab is no more;In Heshbon they have devised evil against her:'Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation.'Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence;The sword shall pursue thee.3Hark! a cry from Horonaim,Spoiling and great destruction!4Moab is destroyed;Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.5For by the ascent of LuhithWith continual weeping shall they go up;For in the going down of HoronaimThey have heard the distressing cry of destruction.6Flee, save your lives,And be like a tamarisk in the wilderness. 7For, because thou hast trustedIn thy works and in thy treasures,Thou also shalt be taken;And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity,His priests and his princes together.8And the spoiler shall come upon every city,And no city shall escape;The valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed;As the Lord hath spoken.9Give wings unto Moab,For she must fly and get away;And her cities shall become a desolation,Without any to dwell therein.10Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord with a slack hand,And cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.11Moab hath been at ease from his youth,And he hath settled on his lees,And hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel,Neither hath he gone into captivity;Therefore his taste remaineth in him,And his scent is not changed.12Therefore, behold, the days come,Saith the Lord,That I will send unto him them that tilt up,And they shall tilt him up;And they shall empty his vessels,And break their bottles in pieces.13And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh,As the house of Israel was ashamedOf Beth-el their confidence. 14How say ye: 'We are mighty men,And valiant men for the war'?15Moab is spoiled, and they are gone up into her cities,And his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter,Saith the King,Whose name is the Lord of hosts.16The calamity of Moab is near to come,And his affliction hasteth fast.17Bemoan him, all ye that are round about him,And all ye that know his name;Say: 'How is the strong staff broken,The beautiful rod! '18O thou daughter that dwellest in Dibon,Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst;For the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee,He hath destroyed thy strongholds.19O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch;Ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth;Say: 'What hath been done?'20Moab is put to shame, for it is dismayed;Wail and cry;Tell ye it in Arnon,That Moab is spoiled.
21And judgment is come upon the country of the Plain; upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath; 22and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim; 23and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon; 24and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
25The horn of Moab is cut off,And his arm is broken,Saith the Lord.26Make ye him drunken,For he magnified himself against the Lord;And Moab shall wallow in his vomit,And he also shall be in derision.27For was not Israel a derision unto thee?Was he found among thieves?For as often as thou speakest of him,Thou waggest the head.28O ye that dwell in Moab,Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock;And be like the dove that maketh her nestIn the sides of the pit's mouth. 29We have heard of the pride of Moab;He is very proud;His loftiness, and his pride, and his haughtiness,And the assumption of his heart.30I know his arrogancy, saith the Lord,That it is ill-founded;His boastings have wrought nothing well-founded.31Therefore will I wail for Moab;Yea, I will cry out for all Moab;For the men of Kir-heres shall my heart moan.32With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee,O vine of Sibmah;Thy branches passed over the sea,They reached even to the sea of Jazer;Upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintageThe spoiler is fallen.33And gladness and joy is taken awayFrom the fruitful field, and from the land of Moab;And I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses;None shall tread with shouting;The shouting shall be no shouting.34From
