Jeremiah 43 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Jeremiah 43Taken to Egypt, Jeremiah Warns of Judgment

1 that is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes. Let the Judeans see you do it,

10Jer 25.9, 11; 27.5, 6; 31.20and say to them, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to send and take my servant King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have buried, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.

11Isa 19.1–25; Jer 15.2; 44.13; 46.13; Ezek 29.19, 20He shall come and ravage the land of Egypt, giving

those who are destined for pestilence, to pestilence,

and those who are destined for captivity, to captivity,

and those who are destined for the sword, to the sword.

12 Isa 19.1; Jer 46.25; Ezek 30.13 “I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive, and he shall pick clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks his cloak clean of vermin, and he shall depart from there safely.

13He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.”