14 “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in (A)Migdol;
    proclaim in (B)Memphis and (C)Tahpanhes;
say, (D)‘Stand ready and be prepared,
    for (E)the sword shall devour around you.’

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10 (A)That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
    (B)a day of vengeance,
    (C)to avenge himself on his foes.
(D)The sword shall devour and be sated
    and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord God of hosts holds (E)a sacrifice
    (F)in the north country (G)by the river Euphrates.

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Judgment for Idolatry

44 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt, at (A)Migdol, at (B)Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of (C)Pathros,

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13 (A)Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and (B)I will burn your[a] chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and (C)the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:13 Hebrew her

(A)“Prepare buckler and shield,
    and advance for battle!
(B)Harness the horses;
    mount, O horsemen!
Take your stations with your helmets,
    (C)polish your spears,
    put on your armor!

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Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in (A)Tahpanhes: “Take in your hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement that is at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace in (B)Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah,

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30 In vain have I (A)struck your children;
    they took no correction;
(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.

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20 but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    (A)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

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Proclaim this among the nations:
(A)Consecrate for war;[a]
    stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
    let them come up.
10 (B)Beat your plowshares into swords,
    and (C)your pruning hooks into spears;
    let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”

11 (D)Hasten and come,
    all you surrounding nations,
    and gather yourselves there.
(E)Bring down your warriors, O Lord.
12 Let the nations stir themselves up
    and come up to (F)the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
(G)for there I will sit to judge
    all the surrounding nations.

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  1. Joel 3:9 Or Consecrate a war

16 And I will set fire to Egypt;
    Pelusium shall be in great agony;
Thebes shall be breached,
    and (A)Memphis shall face enemies[a] by day.
17 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword,
    and the women[b] shall go into captivity.
18 At (B)Tehaphnehes (C)the day shall be dark,
    when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt,
and (D)her proud might shall come to an end in her;
    she shall be covered by a cloud,
    and her daughters shall go into captivity.

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  1. Ezekiel 30:16 Or distress
  2. Ezekiel 30:17 Or the cities; Hebrew they

12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert
    destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
    from one end of the land to the other;
    no flesh has peace.

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Impending Disaster for Jerusalem

Flee for safety, (A)O people of Benjamin,
    from the midst of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in (B)Tekoa,
    and raise a signal on (C)Beth-haccherem,
for disaster looms (D)out of the north,
    and great destruction.
The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy,
    (E)the daughter of Zion.[a]
(F)Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her;
    (G)they shall pitch their tents around her;
    they shall pasture, each in his place.
(H)“Prepare war against her;
    arise, and let us attack (I)at noon!
Woe to us, for the day declines,
    for the shadows of evening lengthen!
Arise, and let us attack by night
    and destroy her palaces!”

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  1. Jeremiah 6:2 Or I have likened the daughter of Zion to the loveliest pasture

The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
    it is gorged with fat,
    with the blood of lambs and goats,
    with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
(A)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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(A)“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
    and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
    and his young men shall be (B)put to forced labor.

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26 Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?”

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“Tell the people of Israel to (A)turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between (B)Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea.

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