Jeremiah 46:17
Good News Translation
"Give the king of Egypt a new name--'Noisy Braggart Who Missed His Chance.'

New Revised Standard Version
Give Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the name “Braggart who missed his chance.”

Contemporary English Version
Give the king of Egypt this new name, "Talks-Big-Does-Nothing."

New American Bible
Give Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the name “Braggart-missed-his-chance.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.

Pharaoh

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

1 Kings 20:10,18 And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. . . .

Isaiah 19:11-16 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? . . .

Isaiah 31:3 Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded together.

Isaiah 37:27-29 The inhabitants of them were weak of hand, they trembled, and were confounded: they became like the grass of the field, and the herb of the pasture, and like the grass of the housetops, which withered before it was ripe. . . .

Ezekiel 29:3 Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.

Ezekiel 31:18 To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

Context
The Judgment on Egypt
16He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen upon another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the sword of the dove. 17Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.18As I live, saith the King, (whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.…
Cross References
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

Exodus 15:10
Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters.

1 Kings 20:10
And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

1 Kings 20:11
And the king of Israel answering, said: Tell him: Let not the girded boast himself as the ungirded.

Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Jeremiah 46:16
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