Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The lightest of foot shall not flee away, and the worthies shall not escape. Toward the north by the water of Euphrates, they shall stumble and fall.
New American Standard Bible
Nor the mighty man escape;
In the north beside the river Euphrates
They have
King James Version
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
Holman Bible
and the warrior cannot escape!
In the north by the bank of the Euphrates River,
they stumble and fall.
International Standard Version
"The swift cannot flee, nor can the strong escape. In the north, beside the Euphrates River, they stumble and fall.
A Conservative Version
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.
American Standard Version
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
Amplified
Do not let the swift man run,
Nor the mighty man escape;
In the north by the river Euphrates
They have stumbled and fallen.
Bible in Basic English
Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.
Darby Translation
Let not the swift flee away, neither let the mighty man escape! Toward the north, hard by the river Euphrates, they have stumbled and fallen.
Julia Smith Translation
The swift shall not flee away, and the strong shall not escape: to the north upon the hand of the river Phrath they stumbled and fell
King James 2000
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape. They have stumbled and they have fallen, by the bank of the Euphrates River.
Modern King James verseion
Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. They stumbled and fell toward the north, by the side of the river Euphrates.
NET Bible
But even the swiftest cannot get away. Even the strongest cannot escape. There in the north by the Euphrates River they stumble and fall in defeat.
New Heart English Bible
"Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
The Emphasized Bible
Let not the swift, flee, Nor let the hero, escape, - Northward, beside the river Euphrates, have they stumbled, and fallen.
Webster
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape! they shall stumble, and fall towards the north by the river Euphrates.
World English Bible
Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
Youngs Literal Translation
The swift do not flee, nor do the mighty escape, Northward, by the side of the river Phrat, They have stumbled and fallen.
Themes
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Armies destroyed by babylon
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 46:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Messages Concerning Egypt
5 But alas, how happeneth it, that I see you so afraid? Why shrink ye back? Wherefore are your worthies slain? Yea, they run so fast away, that none of them looketh behind him. Fearfulness is fallen upon every one of them, sayeth the LORD. 6 The lightest of foot shall not flee away, and the worthies shall not escape. Toward the north by the water of Euphrates, they shall stumble and fall. 7 But what is he, this that swelleth up as it were a flood, roaring and raging like the streams of water?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Daniel 11:19
Thus shall he turn again to his own land, stumble, and fall, and be no more found:
Jeremiah 46:12
The Heathen shall hear of thy shame, and the land shall be full of thy confusion: for one strong man shall stumble upon another. How then should they not fall both together?"
Judges 4:15-21
But the LORD trounced Sisera and all his chariots and all his host with the edge of the sword, before Barak. And Sisera lighted down off his chariot and fled afoot.
Psalm 27:2
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Psalm 33:16-17
There is no king that can be saved by the multitude of a host; neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength.
Psalm 147:10-11
He hath no pleasure in the strength of a horse, neither delighteth he in any man's legs.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
So I turned me unto other things under the Sun, and I saw that in running it helpeth not to be swift; in battle it helpeth not to be strong; to feeding it helpeth not to be wise; to riches, it helpeth not to be suttle; to be had in favour, it helpeth not to be cunning: but that all lieth in time and fortune.
Isaiah 8:15
And many shall stumble, fall, and be broken upon him: yea they shall be snared and taken."
Isaiah 30:16-17
For ye have said, "No, but we will escape through horses!" Therefore shall ye flee. And, "We will get us up upon swift beasts!" Therefore shall your persecutors be swifter.
Jeremiah 1:14
Then said the LORD unto me, "Out of the north shall come a plague upon all the dwellers of the land.
Jeremiah 4:6
Set up the token in Zion, speed you, and make no tarrying: for I will bring a great plague, and a great destruction from the north.
Jeremiah 6:1
Come out of Jerusalem, ye strong children of Benjamin! Blow up the trumpets ye Tekoites, set up a token unto Bethhaccherem; for a plague and a great misery peepeth out from the North.
Jeremiah 20:11
But the LORD stood by me, like a mighty giant: therefore my persecutors fell, and could do nothing. They shall be sore confounded, for they have done unwisely, they shall have an everlasting shame.
Jeremiah 25:9
Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert.
Jeremiah 46:10
So shall this day be unto the LORD God of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his enemies. The sword shall devour, it shall be satisfied and bathed in their blood: For the LORD God of Hosts shall have a slain offering toward the North, by the water of Euphrates.
Jeremiah 46:16
The slaughter was great, for one fell ever still upon another. One cried upon another, 'Up, let us go again to our own people, and to our own natural country, from the sword of our enemy.'
Jeremiah 50:32
And the proud shall stumble and fall, and no man shall help him up. I will burn up his cities with fire, and it shall consume all that is round about him.
Daniel 11:22
He shall fight against the armies of the mighty, and destroy them; yea, and against the prince of the covenant.
Amos 2:14-15
so that the swift shall not escape, neither the strong be able to do anything: no, the giant shall not save his own life.
Amos 9:1-3
I saw the LORD standing upon the altar, and he said, "Smite the door check, that the posts may shake withal. For their covetousness shall fall upon all their heads, and their posterity shall be slain with the sword. They shall not flee away, there shall not one of them escape, nor be delivered.