Jeremiah 46:17
What does Jeremiah 46:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 46:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt <FI>is<Fi> a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890There did they cry, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the time appointed go by.
Context
v.16He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
v.17This passage
v.18As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 29:3
speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
- Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field of grain before it is grown up.
- Ezekiel 31:18
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.
- Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- 1 Kings 20:18
And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they are come out for war, take them alive.
- 1 Kings 20:10
And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
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