Jeremiah 46:7 "Who is this that rises like the Nile, like rivers of surging waters?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Who is this that rises like the Nile, like rivers of surging waters?

English Standard Version
“Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

New American Standard Bible
Who is this that rises like the Nile, Like the rivers whose waters surge about?

King James Bible
Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?

International Standard Version
Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

American Standard Version
Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like those of rivers ?

Darby Bible Translation
Who is this that riseth up as the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

Young's Literal Translation
Who is this? as a flood he cometh up, As rivers do his waters shake themselves!

Cross References

Jeremiah 47:2
Thus said the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are as a whale in the seas: and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

Daniel 11:10
But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.

Amos 8:8
Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

46:1-12 The whole word of God is against those who obey not the gospel of Christ; but it is for those, even of the Gentiles, who turn to Him. The prophecy begins with Egypt. Let them strengthen themselves with all the art and interest they have, yet it shall be all in vain. The wounds God inflicts on his enemies, cannot be healed by medicines. Power and prosperity soon pass from one to another in this changing world.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. as a flood—(Jer 47:2; Isa 8:7, 8; Da 11:22). The figure is appropriate in addressing Egyptians, as the Nile, their great river, yearly overspreads their lands with a turbid, muddy flood. So their army, swelling with arrogance, shall overspread the region south of Euphrates; but it, like the Nile, shall retreat as fast as it advanced.