Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of
Judah;
6 Evenmen, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they
evento Tahpanhes.
8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which isat the
entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
10 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and
take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones
that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliversuch as arefor death to
death; and such as arefor captivity to captivity; and such as arefor the sword to the sword.
12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry
them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on
his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that isin the land of Egypt; and the houses
of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt,
which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought
upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they area desolation, and
no man dwelleth therein,
3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they
went to burn incense, andto serve other gods, whom they knew not, neitherthey, ye, nor your
fathers.
4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying,
Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no
incense unto other gods.
6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah
and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted anddesolate, as at this day.
7 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye
thisgreat evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of
Judah, to leave you none to remain;
8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other
gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that
ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah,
and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives,
which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10 They are not humbled evenunto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor
in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
11 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against
you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt
to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, andfall in the land of Egypt; they shall evenbe

consumed by the sword andby the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest,
by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, andan astonishment, and a
curse, and a reproach.
13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there,
shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a
desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all
the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt,
in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
16 As forthe word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken
unto thee.
17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense
unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our
fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for
thenhad we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings
unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her,
did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people
which had given him thatanswer, saying,
21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and
your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember
them, and came it notinto his mind?
22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, andbecause of the
abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not
obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies;
therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the
LORD, all Judah that arein the land of Egypt:
25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken
with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that
we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her:
ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I
have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the
mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that arein
the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of
them.
28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land
of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there,
shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
29 And this shall bea sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye
may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

30 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his
enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written
these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;
3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my
sighing, and I find no rest.
4 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, thatwhich I have built will I break
down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.
5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek themnot: for, behold, I will bring evil upon
all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou
goest.
1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
2 Against 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.
3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with yourhelmets; furbish the
spears, andput on the brigandines.
5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed andturned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten
down, and are fled apace, and look not back: forfear wasround about, saith the LORD.
6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward
the north by the river Euphrates.
7 Who isthis thatcometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and hiswaters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go
up, andwill cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
9 Come 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 andbend the bow.
10 For this isthe 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.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many
medicines; forthou shalt not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man
hath stumbled against the mighty, andthey are fallen both together.
13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
should come andsmite the land of Egypt.
14 Declare 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.
15 Why are thy valiant menswept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16 He 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.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is buta noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
18 AsI live, saith the King, whose name isthe LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor isamong the
mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, soshall he come.
19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be
waste and desolate without an inhabitant.