Jeremiah 46:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
There they will exclaim, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise; he has missed his opportunity.'

New Living Translation
There they will say, ‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is a loudmouth who missed his opportunity!’

English Standard Version
Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.’

Berean Study Bible
There they will cry out: ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.’

New American Standard Bible
“They shouted there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is nothing but a big noise; He has let the appointed time pass by!’

NASB 1995
"They cried there, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise; He has let the appointed time pass by!'

NASB 1977
“They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise; He has let the appointed time pass by!’

Amplified Bible
“They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed and is merely a loud noise; He has let the appointed time [of opportunity] pass by!’

Christian Standard Bible
There they will cry out, “Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he let the opportune moment pass.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There they will cry out, "Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he let the opportune moment pass."

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There they will cry, 'Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is a big windbag. He has missed his chance.'

International Standard Version
There they'll cry out, 'Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is just a big noise. He has let the appointed time pass by.'

NET Bible
There at home they will say, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is just a big noise! He has let the most opportune moment pass by.'
Classic Translations
King James Bible
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

New King James Version
They cried there, ‘Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise. He has passed by the appointed time!’

King James 2000 Bible
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed.

New Heart English Bible
They cried there, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.'"

World English Bible
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.

American King James Version
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed.

American Standard Version
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

A Faithful Version
They cried there, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise; he let pass the appointed time. '

Darby Bible Translation
There did they cry, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the time appointed go by.

English Revised Version
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

Webster's Bible Translation
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
They did cry there, Pharaoh King of Egypt, and of a great multitude hath passed the time appointed.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They dyd crye euen there, Pharao the kyng of Egypt is a kyng of troublesomnesse: he hath ouerpast the appointed tyme.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Crie euen there: O Pharao kynge of Egipte, the tyme will bringe sedicion.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt [is] a desolation, "" The appointed time has passed by.

Young's Literal Translation
They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt is a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time.

Smith's Literal Translation
They called there, Pharaoh king of Egypt an uproar; he passed by the appointment.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Call the name of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt: ‘Time has brought tumult.’

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they called there the name of Pharaoh, “The Cripple King of Egypt” “The Trouble Maker” and “Passer of Time”

Lamsa Bible
They did invoke there the name of Pharaoh the Lame, king of Egypt, the troublemaker and passer of time.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; He hath let the appointed time pass by.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Call ye the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, Saon esbeie moed.
















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