Parallel Verses

Amplified


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

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?

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 man run,
Nor the mighty man escape;
In the north by the river Euphrates
They have stumbled and fallen.
7 
Who is this that rises up like the Nile [River],
Like the rivers [in the delta of Egypt] whose waters surge about?
8
Egypt rises like the Nile,
Even like the rivers whose waters surge about.
And He has said, “I will rise, I will cover that land;
I will certainly destroy the city and its inhabitants.”

Cross References

Jeremiah 47:2

Thus says the Lord:

“Behold, waters are going to rise out of the north (Babylonia)
And become an overflowing stream
And overflow the land and all that is in it,
The city and those who live in it.
Then the people will cry out,
And all the inhabitants of the land [of Philistia] will wail.

Isaiah 8:7-8


Now therefore, listen carefully, the Lord is about to bring on them the waters of the [Euphrates] River, strong and abundant—
The king of Assyria and all his glory;
And it will rise over all its channels and canals and go far beyond its banks.

Daniel 11:22

The overwhelming forces [of the invading armies of Egypt] will be flooded away before him and smashed; and also the prince of the covenant [will be smashed].

Song of Songs 3:6

(The Shulammite Bride)
“What is this coming up from the wilderness
Like [stately] pillars of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?”

Song of Songs 8:5

(The Chorus)
“Who is this coming up from the wilderness
Leaning upon her beloved?”

Isaiah 63:1

Who is this who comes from Edom,
With crimson-stained garments from Bozrah [in Edom],
This One (the Messiah) who is majestic in His apparel,
Marching in the greatness of His might?
“It is I, [the One] who speaks in righteousness [proclaiming vindication], mighty to save.”

Daniel 9:26

Then after the sixty-two weeks [of years] the Anointed One will be cut off [and denied His Messianic kingdom] and have nothing [and no one to defend Him], and the people of the [other] prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Amos 8:8


“Because of this [coming judgment] will the land not quake
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
Indeed, all of it shall rise up like the Nile,
And it will be tossed around [from the impact of judgment]
And [afterward] subside again like the Nile of Egypt.

Revelation 12:15

And the serpent hurled water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.

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