Jeremiah 46

1 In the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, the Lord's message that came to Jeremiah the prophet about foreign nations.

١ هَذِهِ هِيَ النُّبُوءَةُ الَّتِي أَوْحَى بِها الرَّبُّ إِلَى إِرْمِيَا عَنِ الأُمَمِ.

2 This concerns Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt and the Egyptian army which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

٢ نُبُوءَةٌ عَنْ مِصْرَ، عَنْ جَيْشِ فِرْعَوْنَ نخُوَ مَلِكِ مِصْرَ الَّذِي كَانَ مُعَسْكِراً عَلَى نَهْرِ الْفُرَاتِ فِي كَرْكَمِيشَ، حَيْثُ قَضَى عَلَيْهِ نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرُ مَلِكُ بَابِلَ فِي السَّنَةِ الرَّابِعَةِ لِيَهُويَاقِيمَ بْنِ يُوشِيَّا مَلِكِ يَهُوذَا.

3 Pick up both your small and large shields, and advance ready for battle!

٣ «أَعِدُّوا الْمِجَنَّ وَالتُّرْسَ وَازْحَفُوا لِلْقِتَالِ.

4 Put the harnesses on the horses and get into your chariots; take your positions with your helmets on! Sharpen your spears; put on your armor!

٤ أَسْرِجُوا الْخَيْلَ وَامْتَطُوهَا أَيُّهَا الْفُرْسَانُ، وَانْتَصِبُوا بِالْخُوَذِ. اصْقِلُوا الرِّمَاحَ وَالْبَسُوا الدُّرُوعَ.

5 Why do I see their lines broken and retreating? Their soldiers are defeated. They run away so quickly they don't even look back because they're so terrified by what's happening around them, declares the Lord.

٥ وَلَكِنْ مَالِي أَرَاهُمْ يُوَلُّونَ الأَدْبَارَ مُرْتَعِبِينَ؟ قَدْ دُحِرَ مُحَارِبُوهُمْ وَفَرُّوا مُسْرِعِينَ. لَمْ يَلْتَفِتُوا إِلَى الْوَرَاءِ، قَدْ حَاصَرَهُمُ الْهَوْلُ مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبٍ»، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

6 Even the fastest of them can't get away; the soldiers can't escape. There in the north beside the Euphrates they fall and die.

٦ «عَجَزَ الْخَفِيفُ عَنِ الْجَرْيِ لِلْفِرَارِ، وَلَيْسَ فِي وُسْعِ الْمُحَارِبِ الْهَرَبُ. فِي الشِّمَالِ عَثَرُوا وَسَقَطُوا إِلَى جُوَارِ نَهْرِ الْفُرَاتِ.

7 Who is this that's coming, rising like the Nile, like swirling rivers whose waters flood?

٧ مَنْ هَذَا الطَّاغِي كَالنِّيلِ، كَالأَنْهَارِ الْمُتَلاطِمَةِ الأَمْوَاجِ؟

8 Egypt is rising like the Nile; its waters swirl like flooding rivers, boasting, “I will rise and sweep over the earth; I will destroy towns and the people in them.”

٨ تَتَعَالَى مِصْرُ كَفَيَضَانِ النِّيلِ، كَالأَنْهَارِ الْمُتَلاطِمَةِ الأَمْوَاجِ. تَقُولُ: أَفِيضُ وَأَغْمُرُ الأَرْضَ، أَهْدِمُ الْمُدُنَ وَأُهْلِكُ سُكَّانَهَا.

9 Horses, charge in! Chariots, drive like crazy! Have the infantry advance: soldiers from Ethiopia and Put carrying their shields, archers from Lydia with their bows.

٩ اقْتَحِمِي أَيَّتُهَا الْخَيْلُ، وَثُورِي يَا مَرْكَبَاتُ، وَلْيَبْرُزِ الْمُحَارِبُونَ مِنْ رِجَالِ كُوشَ وَفُوطَ، الْحَامِلِينَ التُّرُوسَ، وَمِنْ رِجَالِ لُودِيمَ رُمَاةِ السِّهَامِ بِالْقِسِيِّ.

10 But this is the day of the Lord God Almighty, a day of retribution when he takes vengeance on his enemies. The sword will destroy until it is satisfied, until it's had enough of their blood. The Lord God Almighty is having a sacrifice in the north country beside the Euphrates.

١٠ فَهَذَا الْيَوْمُ هُوَ يَوْمُ قَضَاءِ السَّيِّدِ الرَّبِّ الْقَدِيرِ، يَوْمُ الانْتِقَامِ. فِيهِ يَثْأَرُ لِنَفْسِهِ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِ، فَيَلْتَهِمُ السَّيْفُ وَيَشْبَعُ، وَيَرْتَوِي مِنْ دِمَائِهِمْ، لأَنَّ لِلسَّيِّدِ الرَّبِّ الْقَدِيرِ ذَبِيحَةً فِي أَرْضِ الشِّمَالِ إِلَى جُوَارِ نَهْرِ الْفُرَاتِ.

11 Go and find some healing ointment in Gilead, Virgin Daughter of Egypt! But whatever you use to help you will fail, because there's nothing that will heal you.

١١ اصْعَدِي إِلَى جِلْعَادَ وَخُذِي بَلَسَاناً يَا عَذْرَاءَ ابْنَةَ مِصْرَ. وَلَكِنْ بَاطِلاً تُكْثِرِينَ مِنَ الْعَقَاقِيرِ، إِذْ لَا شِفَاءَ لَكِ.

12 The other nations have heard how you were humiliated in defeat. Everyone can hear your cries of pain. Soldiers fall over each other, and die together.

١٢ سَتَسْمَعُ الأُمَمُ بِمَا لَحِقَ بِكِ مِنْ عَارٍ، وَيَمْلَأُ صُرَاخُكِ الأَرْضَ، لأَنَّ بَطَلاً مُحَارِباً يَصْطَدِمُ بِبَطَلٍ مُحَارِبٍ فَيَسْقُطَانِ كِلاهُمَا مَعاً».

13 This is the message that the Lord gave to Jeremiah the prophet about the attack by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon on Egypt:

١٣ النُّبُوءَةُ الَّتِي أَوْحَى بِها الرَّبُّ إِلَى إِرْمِيَا النَّبِيِّ عَنْ زَحْفِ نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرَ مَلِكِ بَابِلَ لِمُهَاجَمَةِ مِصْرَ:

14 Shout a warning in Egypt! Tell everyone in Migdol, and in Memphis and Tahpanhes: Get ready to defend yourselves, because war is destroying everything around you.

١٤ «أَذِيعُوا فِي مِصْرَ وَأَعْلِنُوا فِي مَجْدَلَ. خَبِّرُوا فِي مَمْفِيسَ وَفِي تَحْفَنْحِيسَ، قُولُوا: قِفْ مُتَأَهِّباً وَتَهَيَّأْ لأَنَّ السَّيْفَ يَلْتَهِمُ مِنْ حَوْلِكَ.

15 Why did Apis your bull god run away? He couldn't stand his ground because the Lord has knocked him down.

١٥ لِمَاذَا فَرَّ إِلَهُكَ الثَّوْرُ أَبِيسُ وَلَمْ يَصْمُدْ فِي الْقِتَالِ؟ لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ طَرَحَهُ.

16 Many soldiers trip and fall over one another and say, “Come on! Let's get back home to our people where we were born, otherwise we're going to be killed.”

١٦ كَثَّرَ الْعَاثِرِينَ، فَسَقَطَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ. فَتَقُولُ بَقِيَّةُ الْيَهُودِ آنَئِذٍ: قُومُوا لِنَرْجِعْ إِلَى قَوْمِنَا وَإِلَى أَرْضِ مَوْطِنِنَا، هَرَباً مِنْ سَيْفِ الطَّاغِي.

17 When they get there they'll say about Pharaoh king of Egypt, “He just makes a lot of noise. He wasted his opportunity.”

١٧ وَيَهْتِفُونَ هُنَاكَ: إِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ مَلِكَ مِصْرَ لَيْسَ سِوَى طَبْلٍ أَجْوَفَ أَضَاعَ فُرْصَتَهُ.

18 As I live, declares the King who has the name “the Lord Almighty,” the king of Babylon will come. He is like Mount Tabor that stands out from the other mountains, like Mount Carmel high above the sea.

١٨ حَيٌّ أَنَا يَقُولُ الْمَلِكُ الَّذِي اسْمُهُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ، سَيُقْبِلُ نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرُ كَجَبَلِ تَابُورَ بَيْنَ الْجِبَالِ وَكَالْكَرْمَلِ عِنْدَ الْبَحْرِ.

19 Pack your bags ready for exile, daughter living in Egypt! Memphis is going to be destroyed, an empty place where no one lives.

١٩ تَأَهَّبُوا لِلْجَلاءِ يَا أَهْلَ مِصْرَ، لأَنَّ مَمْفِيسَ سَتَضْحَى أَطْلالاً وَخِرَباً مَهْجُورَةً.

20 Egypt is a beautiful young cow, but a stinging insect from the north is coming to attack her.

٢٠ مِصْرُ عِجْلَةٌ فَاتِنَةٌ هَاجَمَهَا الْهَلاكُ مِنَ الشِّمَالِ.

21 The soldiers that Egypt hired are like calves made fat for slaughter. They will also retreat. They won't stand and fight—they will all run away. Their day of destruction is coming; the time when they'll be punished.

٢١ حَتَّى مُرْتَزَقَتُهَا فِي وَسَطِهَا كَعُجُولٍ مُسَمَّنَةٍ قَدْ نَكَصُوا عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمْ هَارِبِينَ مَعاً وَلَمْ يَصْمُدُوا، لأَنَّ يَوْمَ بَلائِهِمْ قَدْ حَلَّ بِهِمْ فِي وَقْتِ عِقَابِهِمْ.

22 The Egyptians will retreat with a rustle like a snake sliding away, because the enemy will attack them with axes, coming at them like wood-cutters chopping down trees.

٢٢ صَوْتُهَا كَحَفِيفِ الْحَيَّةِ الْمُتَلَوِّيَةِ، لأَنَّ أَعْدَاءَهَا زَاحِفُونَ إِلَيْهَا بِفُؤُوسٍ كَحَطَّابِي الأَشْجَارِ.

23 They will cut them down like a thick forest, declares the Lord, because the invaders are like a swarm of locusts—there's so many of them that they can't be counted.

٢٣ سَيَقْطَعُونَ غَابَهَا، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، وَإِنْ كَانَ يَتَعَذَّرُ اخْتِرَاقُهُ، لأَنَّ عَدَدَهُمْ يَفُوقُ الْجَرَادَ فِي الْكَثْرَةِ.

24 The people of Egypt will be humiliated. They will be handed over to the people of the north.

٢٤ لَحِقَ الْخِزْيُ بِابْنَةِ مِصْرَ، وَوَقَعَتْ فِي أَسْرِ أَهْلِ الشِّمَالِ».

25 The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Watch, because I will punish Amon, the god of Thebes, and Pharaoh. I will punish the people of Egypt with their gods and kings, and everyone who trusts in Pharaoh.

٢٥ وَيَقُولُ الرَّبُّ الْقَدِيرُ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: «هَا أَنَا أُعَاقِبُ آمُونَ طِيبَةَ وَفِرْعَوْنَ، وَمِصْرَ وَآلِهَتَهَا، وَمُلُوكَهَا، وَكُلَّ مَنْ يَتَّكِلُ عَلَى فِرْعَوْنَ.

26 I'm going to hand them over to those who want to kill them, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after all this happens, people will live in Egypt as they used to, declares the Lord.

٢٦ وَأُسَلِّمُهُمْ إِلَى يَدِ طَالِبِي حَيَاتِهِمْ: إِلَى يَدِ نَبُوخَذْنَصَّرَ مَلِكِ بَابِلَ وَيَدِ رِجَالِهِ، ثُمَّ تَعُودُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ وَتُصْبِحُ آهِلَةً بِالسُّكَّانِ كَالْعَهْدِ بِها فِي الْحِقَبِ السَّالِفَةِ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ.

27 But you, descendants of Jacob my servant, you don't have to be fearful. Israelites, you don't need to be discouraged. I promise to rescue you from your distant places of exile, your descendants from the countries where they're being held captive. You will go home to a quiet and comfortable life, free from any threats.

٢٧ وَلَكِنْ لَا تَخَافُوا يَا ذُرِّيَّةَ عَبْدِي يَعْقُوبَ، وَلا تَفْزَعْ يَا إِسْرَائِيلُ، لأَنِّي سَأُنْقِذُكُمْ مِنَ الْغُرْبَةِ وَأُخَلِّصُ نَسْلَكُمْ مِنْ أَرْضِ السَّبْيِ، فَتَرْجِعُ ذُرِّيَّةُ يَعْقُوبَ وَتَتَمَتَّعُ بِالرَّاحَةِ وَالطُّمَأْنِينَةِ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يُرْعِبَهَا أَحَدٌ.

28 You descendants of Jacob, don't be afraid! declares the Lord, for I will be with you. I will completely destroy all the nations where I've scattered you, I won't completely destroy you. However, I will discipline you as you deserve, and you can be sure I won't leave you unpunished.

٢٨ لَا تَخَافُوا يَا ذُرِّيَّةَ عَبْدِي يَعْقُوبَ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ، لأَنِّي مَعَكُمْ وَأُفْنِي جَمِيعَ الأُمَمِ الَّتِي شَتَّتُّكُمْ إِلَيْهَا. أَمَّا أَنْتُمْ فَلا أُفْنِيكُمْ بَلْ أُؤَدِّبُكُمْ بِالْحَقِّ، إِنَّمَا لَا أُبْرِئُكُمْ جَمِيعاً».