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46GOD's Messages through the prophet Jeremiah regarding the godless nations.H1697H3068H3414H5030H1471 2The Message to Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt at the time it was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon while camped at Carchemish on the Euphrates River in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah:H4714H2428H6549H4428H4714H5104H6578H3751H5019H4428H894H5221H7243H8141H3079H1121H2977H4428H3063 3"'Present arms! March to the front!H6186H4043H6793H5066H4421 4Harness the horses! Up in the saddles! Battle formation! Helmets on, spears sharpened, armor in place!'H631H5483H5927H6571H3320H3553H4838H7420H3847H5630 5But what's this I see? They're scared out of their wits! They break ranks and run for cover. Their soldiers panic. They run this way and that, stampeding blindly. It's total chaos, total confusion, danger everywhere!" GOD's Decree.H7200H2844H5472H268H1368H3807H5127H4498H6437H4032H5439H5002H3068 6"The swiftest runners won't get away, the strongest soldiers won't escape. In the north country, along the River Euphrates, they'll stagger, stumble, and fall.H7031H5127H1368H4422H3782H5307H6828H3027H5104H6578 7"Who is this like the Nile in flood? like its streams torrential?H5927H2975H4325H1607H5104 8Why, it's Egypt like the Nile in flood, like its streams torrential, Saying, 'I'll take over the world. I'll wipe out cities and peoples.'H4714H5927H2975H4325H1607H5104H559H5927H3680H776H6H5892H3427 9Run, horses! Roll, chariots! Advance, soldiers from Cush and Put with your shields, Soldiers from Lud, experts with bow and arrow.H5927H5483H1984H7393H1368H3318H3568H6316H8610H4043H3866H8610H1869H7198 10"But it's not your day. It's the Master's, me, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies— the day when I have it out with my enemies, The day when Sword puts an end to my enemies, when Sword exacts vengeance. I, the Master, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, will pile them on an altar—a huge sacrifice!— In the great north country, along the mighty Euphrates.H3117H136H3069H6635H3117H5360H5358H6862H2719H398H7646H7301H1818H136H3069H6635H2077H6828H776H5104H6578 11"Oh, virgin Daughter Egypt, climb into the mountains of Gilead, get healing balm. You will vainly collect medicines, for nothing will be able to cure what ails you.H5927H1568H3947H6875H1330H1323H4714H7723H7235H7499H8585 12The whole world will hear your anguished cries. Your wails fill the earth, As soldier falls against soldier and they all go down in a heap."H1471H8085H7036H6682H4390H776H1368H3782H1368H5307H8147H3162

Egypt’s Army Slithers Like a Snake

13The Message that GOD gave to the prophet Jeremiah when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon was on his way to attack Egypt:H1697H3068H1696H3414H5030H5019H4428H894H935H5221H776H4714 14"Tell Egypt, alert Migdol, post warnings in Noph and Tahpanhes: 'Wake up! Be prepared! War's coming!'H5046H4714H8085H4024H8085H5297H8471H559H3320H3559H2719H398H5439 15"Why will your bull-god Apis run off? Because GOD will drive him off.H47H5502H5975H3068H1920 16Your ragtag army will fall to pieces. The word is passing through the ranks, 'Let's get out of here while we still can. Let's head for home and save our skins.'H7235H3782H376H5307H7453H559H6965H7725H5971H776H4138H6440H3238H2719 17When they get home they'll nickname Pharaoh 'Big-Talk-Bad-Luck.'H7121H6547H4428H4714H7588H5674H4150 18As sure as I am the living God" —the King's Decree, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies is his name— "A conqueror is coming: like Tabor, singular among mountains; like Carmel, jutting up from the sea!H2416H5002H4428H8034H3068H6635H8396H2022H3760H3220H935 19So pack your bags for exile, you coddled daughters of Egypt, For Memphis will soon be nothing, a vacant lot grown over with weeds.H1323H3427H4714H6213H3627H1473H5297H8047H3341H3427 20"Too bad, Egypt, a beautiful sleek heifer attacked by a horsefly from the north!H4714H3304H5697H7171H935H935H6828 21All her hired soldiers are stationed to defend her— like well-fed calves they are. But when their lives are on the line, they'll run off, cowards every one. When the going gets tough, they'll take the easy way out.H7916H7130H4770H5695H6437H5127H3162H5975H3117H343H935H6256H6486 22"Egypt will slither and hiss like a snake as the enemy army comes in force. They will rush in, swinging axes like lumberjacks cutting down trees.H6963H3212H5175H3212H2428H935H7134H2404H6086 23They'll level the country"—GOD's Decree—"nothing and no one standing for as far as you can see. The invaders will be a swarm of locusts, innumerable, past counting.H3772H3293H5002H3068H2713H7231H697H369H4557 24Daughter Egypt will be ravished, raped by vandals from the north."H1323H4714H3001H5414H3027H5971H6828 25GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, says, "Watch out when I visit doom on the god Amon of Thebes, Egypt and its gods and kings, Pharaoh and those who trust in him.H3068H6635H430H3478H559H6485H527H528H4996H6547H4714H430H4428H6547H982 26I'll turn them over to those who are out to kill them, to Nebuchadnezzar and his military. Egypt will be set back a thousand years. Eventually people will live there again." GOD's Decree.H5414H3027H1245H5315H3027H5019H4428H894H3027H5650H310H7931H3117H6924H5002H3068 27"But you, dear Jacob my servant, you have nothing to fear. Israel, there's no need to worry. Look up! I'll save you from that far country, I'll get your children out of the land of exile. Things are going to be normal again for Jacob, safe and secure, smooth sailing.H3372H5650H3290H2865H3478H3467H7350H2233H776H7628H3290H7725H8252H7599H2729 28Yes, dear Jacob my servant, you have nothing to fear. Depend on it, I'm on your side. I'll finish off all the godless nations among which I've scattered you, But I won't finish you off. I have more work left to do on you. I'll punish you, but fairly. No, I'm not finished with you yet."H3372H3290H5650H5002H3068H6213H3617H1471H5080H6213H3617H3256H4941H5352H5352


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