Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman 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?

A Conservative Version

Who is this that rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Who is this that rises up like the Nile [River],
Like the rivers [in the delta of Egypt] whose waters surge about?

Bible in Basic English

Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Who this as a river he shall come up, as the rivers his waters shall be moved?

King James 2000

Who is this that comes up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Who [is] this that rises like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters surge?

Modern King James verseion

Who is this rising up like the Nile, whose waters are moved like the rivers?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But what is he, this that swelleth up as it were a flood, roaring and raging like the streams of water?

NET Bible

"Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?

New Heart English Bible

Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

The Emphasized Bible

Who is it that is like the Nile when it riseth, Like rivers when his waters are tossed?

Webster

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

World English Bible

Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

Youngs Literal Translation

Who is this? as a flood he cometh up, As rivers do his waters shake themselves!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

as a flood
יאר 
Y@`or 
Usage: 65

גּעשׁ 
Ga`ash 
Usage: 9

Context Readings

Messages Concerning Egypt

6 Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they stumbled and fell toward the north by the river Euphrates. 7 Who is this that rises like the Nile,
Like the rivers whose waters surge about?
8 Egypt rises up like a flood, and his waters move like rivers; and he said, I will go up and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.

Cross References

Jeremiah 47:2

Thus hath the LORD said: 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 cities and those that dwell therein; then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

Isaiah 8:7-8

now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his power, and he shall come up over all his channels and go over all his banks:

Daniel 11:22

And with the arms they shall be overflown of a flood before him and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

Song of Songs 3:6

Who is she that rises out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense and with all the aromatic powders?

Song of Songs 8:5

Who is she that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I woke thee up under the apple tree; there thy mother had birth pains; there she had pains that brought thee into the light.

Isaiah 63:1

Who is this that comes from Edom, with red garments from Bozrah? This glorious one in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

Daniel 9:26

And after the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be killed and shall have nothing: (and the ruling people that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; whose end shall be as a flood, until at the end of the war it shall be cut off with desolation).

Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? and it shall all rise up as a flood, and it shall be cast out and sunk, as the river of Egypt.

Revelation 12:15

And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a river after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the river.

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