Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Why will your soldiers be defeated? They will not stand because I, the Lord, will thrust them down.
New American Standard Bible
They do not stand because the Lord has
King James Version
Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
Holman Bible
Each has not stood,
for the Lord has thrust him down.
International Standard Version
Why are your warriors prostrate? They don't stand because the LORD has brought them down.
A Conservative Version
Why are thy strong ones swept away? They stood not, because LORD drove them.
American Standard Version
Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Jehovah did drive them.
Amplified
“Why have your strong ones been cut down?
They do not stand because the Lord drove them away.
Bible in Basic English
Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.
Darby Translation
Why are thy valiants swept away? They stood not, for Jehovah did thrust them down.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore were thy powerful cast down, not to stand? for Jehovah thrust them away.
King James 2000
Why are your valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why are your bulls defeated? He did not stand because Yahweh thrust him down.
Modern King James verseion
Why is your mighty one swept away? They did not stand, because Jehovah thrust him down.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How happeneth it that thy mighty worthies are fallen? Why stood they not fast? Even because the LORD thrust them down.
New Heart English Bible
Why are your strong ones swept away? They did not stand, because the LORD pushed them.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore have thy valiant ones been laid prostrate? He hath made no stand, because, Yahweh, hath driven him back:
Webster
Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
World English Bible
Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, because Yahweh did drive them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore hath thy bull been swept away? He hath not stood, because Jehovah thrust him away.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 46:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Messages Concerning Egypt
14 "Make an announcement throughout Egypt. Proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes. 'Take your positions and prepare to do battle. For the enemy army is destroying all the nations around you.' 15 Why will your soldiers be defeated? They will not stand because I, the Lord, will thrust them down. 16 I will make many stumble. They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee. They will say, 'Get up! Let's go back to our own people. Let's go back to our homelands because the enemy is coming to destroy us.'
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 66:15-16
For look, the Lord comes with fire, his chariots come like a windstorm, to reveal his raging anger, his battle cry, and his flaming arrows.
Psalm 18:14
He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.
Psalm 18:39
You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.
Psalm 68:2
As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.
Jeremiah 46:5
What do I see?" says the Lord. "The soldiers are terrified. They are retreating. They have been defeated. They are overcome with terror; they desert quickly without looking back.
Exodus 6:1
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for compelled by my strong hand he will release them, and by my strong hand he will drive them out of his land."
Deuteronomy 11:23
then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
Judges 5:20-21
From the sky the stars fought, from their paths in the heavens they fought against Sisera.
Psalm 44:2
You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.
Psalm 114:2-7
Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his kingdom.
Jeremiah 46:21
Even her mercenaries will prove to be like pampered, well-fed calves. For they too will turn and run away. They will not stand their ground when the time for them to be destroyed comes, the time for them to be punished.