Jeremiah 46:19
Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Note furnish…: Heb. make thee instruments of captivity
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.
O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- thou
- Jeremiah 48:18
- furnish thyself to go into captivity
- Heb. make theeinstruments of captivity.
- Isaiah 20:4; Ezekiel 12:3; Ezekiel 12:4–12
- Noph
- Noph, or Moph, is the celebrated city of Memphis, as the Chaldee and LXX. render; long the residence of the ancient Egyptian kings, and situated fifteen miles above where the Delta begins, on the western side of the Nile. It was in the neighbourhood of Memphis that the famous pyramids were erected, whose grandeur and beauty still astonish the modern traveller: they are about twenty in number; the largest of which is 481 feet perpendicular height, and the area of its basis is on 480,249 square feet, or something more than eleven acres, being exactly the size of Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. The immense ruins between the northern and southern pyramids, and about fourteen miles from Cairo, still called Memf, Menf, or Menouf, seem to mark the site of this city.
- Jeremiah 44:1; Ezekiel 30:13
- waste
- Jeremiah 26:9; Jeremiah 34:22; Jeremiah 51:29, 30; Zephaniah 2:5