The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the  ¹nations:

Concerning  ¹Egypt: Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon struck down in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah:

Prepare the buckler and shield,
And draw near to battle.

Harness the horses,
And mount the steeds;
And take your stand with helmets on;
Polish the spears;
Put on the armor.

Why have I seen it?
They are dismayed;
They are turning backward;
And their mighty men are crushed and flee in hasty flight,
And they do not look back; terror is on every side,
Declares Jehovah.

Let not the swift one flee away
And the mighty man escape;
In the north by the river Euphrates
They have stumbled and fallen.

Who is this who rises up like the Nile,
Like rivers whose waters surge?

Egypt rises up like the Nile,
Even like rivers whose waters surge.
And he says, I will rise up and will cover the land;
I will destroy the city and the inhabitants in it.

Go up, O horses,
And drive furiously, O chariots;
And let the mighty men go forth:
Cush and Put, who handle the shield,
And the  ¹Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

For this day belongs to the Lord Jehovah of hosts,
A day of vengeance to avenge Himself on His adversaries;
And the sword will devour and be satisfied,
And it will drink its fill of their blood;
For there is a sacrifice to the Lord Jehovah of hosts
In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

Go up to Gilead and take balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt.
In vain you have used many medicines —
There is no healing for you.

The nations have heard of your disgrace,
And your cry has filled the earth;
For mighty man has stumbled against mighty man;
Both of them have fallen together.

The word which Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:

Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol;
Proclaim also in Memphis and in Tahpanhes.
Say, Take your stand, and prepare yourself;
For the sword has devoured all around you.

Why are your mighty men prostrate?
He does not stand, because Jehovah has cast him down.

He made many stumble;
A man even fell against his neighbor;
And they said, Arise and let us return
To our own people and to the land of our birth,
Away from the sword of the oppressor.

There they cried, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is but a noise;
He has let the appointed time pass by.

As I live, says the King,
Whose name is Jehovah of hosts,
Surely as Tabor is among the mountains,
And Carmel is by the sea, so he will come.

Prepare for yourself baggage for captivity,
O inhabitant, O daughter of Egypt;
For Memphis will become a waste,
And it will be burned, without inhabitant.

Egypt is a beautiful heifer;
A  ¹gadfly from the north has come  ²on her.

Also her hired men in her midst
Are like fattened calves.
But they have also turned back;
They have fled together; they did not stand.
For the day of their calamity has come on them,
The time of their punishment.

Her sound is like that of a serpent going away;
For they go forth in force,
And with axes they come against her,
Like those who fell trees.

They will cut down her forest, declares Jehovah,
Although it is impenetrable;
For they are more numerous than locusts
And are without number.

The daughter of Egypt is put to shame;
She is given into the hand of a people from the north.

Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, says, I will punish  ¹Amon of No and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

And I will give them into the hand of those who seek their life, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants; and  ¹afterward she will be inhabited as in the days of old, declares Jehovah.

 ¹But as for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear;
And do not be dismayed, O Israel.
For indeed I will save you from afar
And your seed from the land of their captivity;
And Jacob will return and be undisturbed
And at ease, and no one will frighten him.

As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear, declares Jehovah,
For I am with you;
For I will make a full end of all the nations
To which I have driven you;
Yet I will not make a full end of you,
But will correct you in measure
And will by no means leave you unpunished.

The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the
 ¹Philistines before Pharaoh struck Gaza.

Thus says Jehovah,
See,  ¹waters are rising up from the north
And will become an overflowing stream;
And they will overflow the land and all that fills it,
The city and those who dwell in it;
And men will cry out,
And every inhabitant of the land will howl.

At the sound of the stamping of the hooves of his stallions,
At the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers will not turn back for their children,
Because of the feebleness of their hands,

Because of the day which is coming,
To destroy all the Philistines,
To cut off from Tyre and Sidon
Every helper who survives;
For Jehovah will destroy the Philistines,
The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

Baldness has come upon Gaza;
Ashkelon has been cut off.
O remnant of their valley,
How long will you cut yourself?

Alas, O sword of Jehovah,
How long until you are quiet? Put yourself into your sheath;
Rest and be still.

How can  ¹it be quiet,
When Jehovah has commanded it?
Against Ashkelon and against the seacoast —
There He has appointed it.

Concerning  ¹Moab:
Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel:
Woe to Nebo, for it is destroyed;
Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is captured;
The lofty retreat is put to shame and dismayed.

The praise of Moab is no more;
In Heshbon they have devised evil against her, saying:
Come and let us cut her off from being a nation.
You also, O  ¹Madmen, will be brought to silence;
A sword will go after you.

The sound of a cry from Horonaim,
Desolation and great destruction!

Moab is destroyed;
Her young have caused a cry to be heard.

For by the ascent of Luhith
Continual weeping will go up;
For by the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

Flee, save your life,
And be like a shrub in the wilderness.

For because of your trust in your works and in your treasures,
You also will be captured;
And  ¹Chemosh will go forth into exile;
His priests and his princes together.

And a destroyer will come to every city,
And no city will escape;
The valley will also perish,
And the plateau will be destroyed,
As Jehovah has said.

Give wings to Moab,
That she may fly and go away;
And her cities will become a waste,
Without inhabitant in them.

Cursed is he who does the work of Jehovah  ¹negligently,
And cursed is he who keeps his sword from blood.

Moab has been at ease from his youth;
And he is settled on his lees
And has not been emptied from vessel to vessel;
Nor has he gone into exile.
Therefore his taste remains in him,
And his scent is not changed.

Therefore indeed, days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will send pourers to him, and they will pour and empty his vessels and shatter  ¹his jars.

And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

How can you say, We are mighty men
And valiant men for war?

Moab has been destroyed,
And its cities have gone up in smoke,
And its choice young men have gone down to slaughter,
Declares the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

The calamity of Moab is near to coming,
And his affliction hastens quickly.

Lament for him, all who are around him
And all who know his name;
Say, How the strong rod is broken,
The glorious staff.

Come down from glory and sit in thirst,
O daughter who dwells in Dibon,
For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you;
He has destroyed your strongholds.

Stand by the way and watch,
O inhabitant of Aroer;
Ask him who flees and her who escapes,
And say, What has happened?

Moab is put to shame, for it is shattered.
Howl and cry out;
Declare by the Arnon
That Moab is devastated.

And judgment has come upon the land of the Plateau, on Holon and on Jahzah and on Mephaath

And on Dibon and on Nebo and on Beth-diblathaim

And on Kiriathaim and on Beth-gamul and on Beth-meon

And on Kerioth and on Bozrah and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares Jehovah.

Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against Jehovah; so Moab will wallow in his vomit and will also be in derision.

For was not Israel a derision to you? Or was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

Leave the cities and dwell in the rock,
O inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a dove who nests
On the sides of the mouth of the pit.

We have heard of the pride of Moab —
He is extremely proud —
Of his loftiness and his pride and his arrogance
And of the haughtiness of his heart.

I know of his insolence, declares Jehovah;
His boastings are all untrue;
They have accomplished nothing.

Therefore I will wail for Moab,
I will even cry out for all Moab;
There will be mourning for the men of Kir-heres.

With more than the weeping of Jazer
I will weep for you, O vine of Sibmah.
Your shoots have crossed over to the sea;
They have reached as far as the sea, to Jazer;
On your summer fruit and on your vintage
The destroyer has fallen.

Rejoicing and exultation are taken away
From the fruited field and from the land of Moab.
And I have caused the wine from the wine presses to cease;
No one will tread them with the harvest shout;
The harvest shout will be no harvest shout.

From the cry of Heshbon as far as Elealeh, even as far as Jahaz, they have uttered their voice, from Zoar as far as Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become a devastation.

And I will bring to an end in Moab the one who offers up in high places and burns incense to his gods, declares Jehovah.

Therefore My heart will moan for Moab like flutes; for the men of Kir-heres My heart will also moan like flutes. As a result, the abundance he has produced has perished.

For every head is bald, and every beard is shaved off; there are cuts on all the hands, and sackcloth on the loins.

On all the roofs of Moab and in her open squares there is wailing everywhere, for I have broken Moab like a vessel which no one desires, declares Jehovah.

How it is shattered! they howl. How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.

For thus says Jehovah,
One will swoop down like an eagle
And spread its wings against Moab.

 ¹Kerioth is captured,
And the strongholds are seized,
And the heart of the mighty men of Moab in that day
Will be like the heart of a woman in labor.

And Moab will be destroyed from being a people,
Because he magnified himself against Jehovah.

Dread, pit, and snare
Are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab,
Declares Jehovah.

He who flees from dread
Will fall into the pit,
And he who comes up out of the pit
Will be taken in the snare;
For I will bring upon her, upon Moab,
The year of their punishment, declares Jehovah.

In the shadow of Heshbon
Those who flee stand without strength;
For fire has gone forth from Heshbon
And a flame from the midst of Sihon;
And it has consumed the corner of Moab
And the top of the head of the sons of tumult.

Woe to you, O Moab!
The people of Chemosh have perished,
For your sons have been taken captive,
And your daughters have gone into captivity.

 ¹But I will turn again the captivity of Moab
In the last days, declares Jehovah.
Thus far is the judgment of Moab.