Jeremiah 46
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
2Against 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.
3Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
4Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
5Wherefore 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, saith the LORD.
6Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
7Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
8Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
9Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye 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.
10For 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 hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
12The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
13The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
15Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon 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.
17They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
18As I live, saith 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.
19O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21Also her hired men are in the midst 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 upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
25The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; 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:
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 afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
27But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
28Fear thou not, 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, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- כִּיkîyH358814× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- מִצְרַיִםMitsrayimH471411× in this chapter
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
- עַלʻalH592111× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhH30689× in this chapter
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- מֶלֶךְmelekH44288× in this chapter
a king
- אֵלʼêlH4137× in this chapter
near, with or among; often in general, to
- לֹאlôʼH38086× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- עָלָהʻâlâhH59276× in this chapter
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
- אֶרֶץʼeretsH7766× in this chapter
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- בּוֹאbôwʼH9356× in this chapter
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
- גִּבּוֹרgibbôwrH13685× in this chapter
powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant
- יָדyâdH30275× in this chapter
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
- אַלʼalH4085× in this chapter
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
- נְאֻםnᵉʼumH50025× in this chapter
an oracle
- נָהָרnâhârH51045× in this chapter
a stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
- אֲשֶׁרʼăsherH8345× in this chapter
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
- יוֹםyôwmH31174× in this chapter
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
- אַיִןʼayinH3694× in this chapter
a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle
- אָמַרʼâmarH5594× in this chapter
to say (used with great latitude)
- פַּרְעֹהParʻôhH65474× in this chapter
Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings
- צָבָאtsâbâʼH66354× in this chapter
a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
- צָפוֹןtsâphôwnH68284× in this chapter
properly, hidden, i.e. dark; used only of the north as aquarter (gloomy and unknown)
- בַּתbathH13233× in this chapter
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
- גּוֹיgôwyH14713× in this chapter
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
- גַּםgamH15713× in this chapter
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
- הָיָהhâyâhH19613× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- חֶרֶבcherebH27193× in this chapter
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
- יַעֲקֹבYaʻăqôbH32903× in this chapter
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
- יָשַׁבyâshabH34273× in this chapter
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
- כָּשַׁלkâshalH37823× in this chapter
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
- נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּרNᵉbûwkadneʼtstsarH50193× in this chapter
Nebukadnetstsar (or -retstsar, or -retstsor), king of Babylon
- נוּסnûwçH51273× in this chapter
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
- נָפַלnâphalH53073× in this chapter
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
- עֶבֶדʻebedH56503× in this chapter
a servant
- עָשָׂהʻâsâhH62133× in this chapter
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
- פְּרָתPᵉrâthH65783× in this chapter
Perath (i.e. Euphrates), a river of the East
- שָׁמַעshâmaʻH80853× in this chapter
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
- אֵתʼêthH8533× in this chapter
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
- בָּבֶלBâbelH8943× in this chapter
Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire
- אֲדֹנָיʼĂdônâyH1362× in this chapter
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)