Add parallel Print Page Options

11 Go up to Gilead and get balm,[a]
    virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain you multiply remedies,
    but there is no healing for you.
12 The nations have heard of your disgrace,
    and your cry of distress fills the earth.
Indeed, one warrior stumbles over another,
    and both of them fall down together.”

Nebuchadnezzar’s Conquest of Egypt

13 This is the message that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to conquer[b] the land of Egypt.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:11 Balm was a spice with medicinal uses.
  2. Jeremiah 46:13 Lit. strike down