11 Go (A)up to Gilead and obtain balm,
(B)Virgin daughter of Egypt!
You have used many [a]remedies in vain;
There is (C)no healing for you.
12 The nations have heard of your (D)shame,
And the earth is full of your (E)cry of distress;
For one (F)warrior has stumbled over [b]another,
And both of them have fallen down together.

13 This is the [c]message which the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the (G)coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to (H)strike the land of Egypt:

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:11 Lit healings
  2. Jeremiah 46:12 Lit warrior
  3. Jeremiah 46:13 Lit word

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