Jeremiah 46:24 Cross References - BBE

²⁴ The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.

¹⁵ For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.

¹¹ Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.

¹⁹ O daughter living in Egypt, make ready the vessels of a prisoner: for Noph will become a waste, it will be burned up and become unpeopled. ²⁰ Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.

¹ In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, let your face be turned against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and be a prophet against him and against all Egypt: ³ Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself. ⁴ And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin. ⁵ And I will let you be in the waste land, you and all the fish of your streams: you will go down on the face of the land; you will not be taken up or put to rest in the earth; I have given you for food to the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven. ⁶ And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel. ⁷ When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way. ⁸ For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast. ⁹ And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it. ¹⁰ See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia. ¹¹ No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years. ¹² I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries. ¹³ For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight: ¹⁴ I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make them come back into the land of Pathros, into the land from which they came; and there they will be an unimportant kingdom. ¹⁵ It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations. ¹⁶ And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord. ¹⁷ Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁸ Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it. ¹⁹ For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon: he will take away her wealth, and take her goods by force and everything which is there; and this will be the payment for his army. ²⁰ I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord. ²¹ In that day I will make a horn put out buds for the children of Israel, and I will let your words come freely among them, and they will be certain that I am the Lord.