Jeremiah 46:3–12

³“Deploy your shields, small and large;

advance for battle!

⁴Harness the horses; mount the steeds;

take your positions with helmets on!

Polish your spears;

put on armor!

⁵Why am I seeing this?

They are terrified,

they are retreating;

their warriors are defeated,

they flee in haste without looking back;

terror is on every side!”

declares the LORD.

⁶“The swift cannot flee,

and the warrior cannot escape!

In the north by the River Euphrates

they stumble and fall.

⁷Who is this, rising like the Nile,

like rivers whose waters churn?

⁸Egypt rises like the Nile,

and its waters churn like rivers,

boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth;

I will destroy the cities and their people.’

⁹Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots!

Let the warriors come forth—

Cush^a and Put carrying their shields,

men of Lydia drawing the bow.

¹⁰For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts,

a day of vengeance against His foes.

The sword will devour until it is satisfied,

until it is quenched with their blood.

For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice

in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

¹¹Go up to Gilead for balm,

O Virgin Daughter of Egypt!

In vain you try many remedies,

but for you there is no healing.

¹²The nations have heard of your shame,

and your outcry fills the earth,

because warrior stumbles over warrior

and both of them have fallen together.”