Berean Standard Bible

Jeremiah 46:20-26

20Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.21Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them— the time of their punishment.

22Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent,1for the enemy will advance in force;with axes they will come against herlike woodsmen cutting down trees.23They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD,dense though it may be,for they are more numerous than locusts;they cannot be counted.24The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame;she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”

25The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am about to punish Amon god of Thebes,2 along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh. 26I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 46:22 Hebrew nachash; translated in most cases as snake ↩
2. Jeremiah 46:25 Hebrew Amon of No ↩

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