Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?
New American Standard Bible
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
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?
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
`alah
Mayim
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 46:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Messages Concerning Egypt
6 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. 7 Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers? 8 Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 47:2
This is what the Lord has said: See, waters are coming up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, overflowing the land and everything in it, the town and those who are living in it; and men will give a cry, and all the people of the land will be crying out in pain.
Isaiah 8:7-8
For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:
Daniel 11:22
And his forces will be completely taken away from before him and broken; and even the ruler of the agreement will have the same fate.
Song of Songs 3:6
Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
Song of Songs 8:5
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.
Daniel 9:26
And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.
Amos 8:8
Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.
Revelation 12:15
And the snake sent out of his mouth after the woman a river of water, so that she might be taken away by the stream.