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 يهوذا

³ 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 معا

¹³ 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 الرب

²⁷ 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 Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

² Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

³ Prepare 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, put on the coats of mail.

⁵ Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

⁶ Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

⁷ Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

⁸ Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.

⁹ Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

¹⁰ For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

¹¹ Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you.

¹² The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

¹³ The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ Declare in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand forth, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.

¹⁵ Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, because Yahweh did drive them.

¹⁶ He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one on another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.

¹⁷ They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.

¹⁸ As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

¹⁹ You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

²⁰ Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

²¹ Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.

²² The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

²³ They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

²⁴ The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

²⁵ Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:

²⁶ and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.

²⁷ But don't you be afraid, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

²⁸ Don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; 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 I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.