46:13 耶和華對先知耶利米所說的話，論到巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒要來攻擊埃及地：
46:14 你們要傳揚在埃及，宣告在密奪，報告在挪弗、答比匿說：要站起出隊，自作準備，因為刀劍在你四圍施行吞滅的事。
46:15 你的壯士為何被沖去呢？他們站立不住；因為耶和華驅逐他們，
46:16 使多人絆跌；他們也彼此撞倒，說：起來吧！我們再往本民本地去，好躲避欺壓的刀劍。
46:17 他們在那裡喊叫說：埃及王法老不過是個聲音（或譯：已經敗亡）；他已錯過所定的時候了。
46:18 君王─名為萬軍之耶和華的說：我指著我的永生起誓：尼布甲尼撒（原文是他）來的勢派必像他泊在眾山之中，像迦密在海邊一樣。
46:19 住在埃及的民（原文是女子）哪，要預備擄去時所用的物件；因為挪弗必成為荒場，且被燒毀，無人居住。
46:20 埃及是肥美的母牛犢；但出於北方的毀滅（或譯：牛虻）來到了！來到了！
46:21 其中的雇勇好像圈裡的肥牛犢，他們轉身退後，一齊逃跑，站立不住；因為他們遭難的日子、追討的時候已經臨到。
46:22 其中的聲音好像蛇行一樣。敵人要成隊而來，如砍伐樹木的手拿斧子攻擊他。
46:23 耶和華說：埃及的樹林雖然不能尋察（或譯：穿不過），敵人卻要砍伐，因他們多於蝗蟲，不可勝數。
46:24 埃及的民（原文是女子）必然蒙羞，必交在北方人的手中。
13 This is the message the Lord spoke to
Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to
attack Egypt:
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“Announce this in Egypt, and proclaim it
in Migdol;
proclaim it also in Memphis and Tahpanhes:
‘Take your positions and get ready,
for the sword devours those around you.’
15
Why will your warriors be laid low?
They cannot stand, for the Lord will push them down.
16
They will stumble repeatedly;
they will fall over each other.
They will say, ‘Get up, let us go back
to our own people and our native lands,
away from the sword of the oppressor.’
17
There they will exclaim,
‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise;
he has missed his opportunity.’
18
“As surely as I live,” declares the King,
whose name is the Lord Almighty,
“one will come who is like Tabor among the
mountains,
like Carmel by the sea.
19
Pack your belongings for exile,
you who live in Egypt,
for Memphis will be laid waste
and lie in ruins without inhabitant.
20
“Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
but a gadfly is coming
against her from the north.
21
The mercenaries in her ranks
are like fattened calves.
They too will turn and flee together,
they will not stand their ground,
for the day of disaster is coming upon
them,
the time for them to be punished.
22
Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent
as the enemy advances in force;
they will come against her with axes,
like men who cut down trees.
23
They will chop down her forest,”
declares the Lord,
“dense though it be.
They are more numerous than locusts,
they cannot be counted.
24
Daughter Egypt will be put to shame,
given into the hands of the people of the north.”
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耶利米在此預言巴比倫必定勝過埃及，要在埃及的猶大百姓不要以為可以安居樂業，要有所覺悟，不要在悖逆上帝崇拜偶像。
其實基督徒也要有所覺悟，要以上帝為我們的生活中心，既然我們已經蒙上帝的拯救，就是要我們與世人有分別，這個分別不是要我們離群索居，而是要我們有不同的生活態度，就是不再以自我為中心，而是以上帝為中心。
我們的生命要立於不敗之地也是在這裡，因為勝利是屬乎上帝和上帝的子民，上帝得勝的方式是透過耶穌基督來完成了！
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