Jeremiah 46

1 The LORD’s word which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

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

2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

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 “Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!

٣ «أَعِدُّوا الْمِجَنَّ وَالتُّرْسَ وَازْحَفُوا لِلْقِتَالِ.

4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

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

5 Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and are turned backward. Their mighty ones are beaten down, have fled in haste, and don’t look back. Terror is on every side,” says 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 “Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.

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

7 “Who is this who rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

٧ مَنْ هَذَا الطَّاغِي كَالنِّيلِ، كَالأَنْهَارِ الْمُتَلاطِمَةِ الأَمْوَاجِ؟

8 Egypt rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’

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

9 Go up, you horses! Rage, you chariots! Let the mighty men go out: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

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

10 For that day is of the Lord, GOD of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, GOD of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river 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 up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

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

12 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they both fall together.”

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

13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come and strike the land of Egypt:

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

14 “Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes; say, ‘Stand up, and prepare, for the sword has devoured 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 are your strong ones swept away? They didn’t stand, because the LORD pushed them.

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

16 He made many to stumble. Yes, they fell on one another. They said, ‘Arise! Let’s go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword.’

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

17 They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’

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

18 “As I live,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.

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

19 You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burned up, without inhabitant.

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

20 “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.

٢٠ مِصْرُ عِجْلَةٌ فَاتِنَةٌ هَاجَمَهَا الْهَلاكُ مِنَ الشِّمَالِ.

21 Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.

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 Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

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

23 They will cut down her forest,” says the LORD, “though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

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

24 The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed; she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.”

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

25 The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him.

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

26 I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants. Afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of old,” says 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 don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant. Don’t be dismayed, Israel; for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.

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 Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says the LORD, “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you, but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way 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».