November
9th Jeremiah
46
The Battle of Carchemish
1:
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the
Gentiles; 2:
Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho 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
your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines. 5:
Wherefore 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. 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 is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the
rivers? 8:
Egypt 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. 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 and bend the bow. 10:
For 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. 11:
Go 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. 12:
The 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.
The Babylonian king is
coming
13:
The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite 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 men swept 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 but a noise; he hath
passed the time appointed. 18:
As 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. 19:
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into
captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an
inhabitant. 20:
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh
out of the north. 21:
Also 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. 22:
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with
an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. 23:
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be
searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are
innumerable. 24:
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered
into the hand of the people of the north. 25:
The 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: 26:
And 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. 27:
But 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. 28:
Fear 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.
Jeremiah
47 The Philistines
1:
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the
Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 2:
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and
shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all
that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men
shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl. 3:
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at
the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the
fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of
hands; 4:
Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to
cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the
LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of
Caphtor. 5:
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of
their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? 6:
O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put
up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. 7:
How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against
Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
Jeremiah
48 Moab
1:
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe
unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken:
Misgab is confounded and dismayed. 2:
There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised
evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.
Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
3:
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great
destruction. 4:
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. 5:
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in
the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of
destruction. 6:
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. 7:
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou
shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with
his priests and his princes together. 8:
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape:
the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as
the LORD hath spoken. 9:
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities
thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. 10:
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed
be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. 11:
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his
lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath
he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his
scent is not changed. 12:
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send
unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty
his vessels, and break their bottles. 13:
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was
ashamed of Bethel their confidence. 14:
How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war? 15:
Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young
men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the
LORD of hosts. 16:
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth
fast. 17:
All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name,
say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod! 18:
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and
sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he
shall destroy thy strong holds. 19:
O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that
fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done? 20:
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; and tell ye
it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, 21:
And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon
Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, 22:
And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim, 23:
And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon, 24:
And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the
land of Moab, far or near. 25:
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
26:
Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab
also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. 27:
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves?
for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. 28:
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and
be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's
mouth. 29:
We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his
loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of
his heart. 30:
I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies
shall not so effect it. 31:
Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine
heart shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres. 32:
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy
plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer:
the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
33:
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the
land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses:
none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
34:
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have
they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer
of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
35:
Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that
offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his
gods. 36:
Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart
shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches
that he hath gotten are perished. 37:
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the
hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. 38:
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab,
and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel
wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD. 39:
They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned
the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to
all them about him. 40:
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall
spread his wings over Moab. 41:
Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty
men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in
her pangs. 42:
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath
magnified himself against the LORD. 43:
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of
Moab, saith the LORD. 44:
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that
getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will
bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith
the LORD. 45:
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the
force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from
the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the
crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. 46:
Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy
sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives. 47:
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days,
saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
This chapter records the
Prophecy of Jeremiah that he spoke against the Gentile nations in
particular Egypt and Babylon. Its interesting that Jeremiah specifies
who are the kings of both nations. Pharaoh-necho of Egypt and
Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon. He also gives the exact timing. It was the
forth year of Jehoiakim. The Lord describes the order of battle and
even to the point of describing the mercenaries of Ethiopia, Libya
and Lydia. The Ethiopians and Libyans are infantry with shields and
the Lydian’s are archers. The Lord goes forth to war against the
enemy nations and there is no cure for their injuries. The Lord
foretold that Nebuchadrezzar would sweep into Egypt and destroy it.
Yet in all this destruction Jacob is not to be afraid, they will
return to the land of Palestine and non shall make them afraid. The
Lord will discipline Israel but not destroy them completely. In the
next chapter we have the word of God concerning the Philistines. The
Lord describes a huge invasion against the Philistines which will
completely overwhelm them. Lastly the Lord speaks against Moab, the
eastern nation. The Lord lists the cities that will be destroyed and
the fear and astonishment of the people. They relied on wealth and
cleverness but these things will not save them. Moab had become soft
and takes its ease thinking it would always be safe. The destruction
of these nations is very fast so that there is hardly time to escape.
Moab always rejoiced at the troubles of Israel, Yet God will avenge
them of this sin. The lord describes the pride and arrogance and high
mindedness of Moab. They thought they were clever. The Lord will
break them like a vessel that has become useless. Those that escape
will be destroyed by fire from heaven. These prophesies describe
momentous events in world history and they are all in focus because
of the relation of these nations to Israel. God is the God of Israel
but he expects nations to be kind and helpful to his people. If they
are not they will be destroyed.
- What happened at The Battle of Carchemish?
- What nations are described here?
- What does the Prophets say about each nation?
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