Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

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?

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 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. 7 Who is this that riseth up as the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? 8 It is Egypt that riseth up as the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers; and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.



Cross References

Jeremiah 47:2

Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,

Isaiah 8:7-8

therefore behold, the Lord will bring up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall mount up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

Daniel 11:22

And the overflowing forces shall be overflowed from before him, and shall be broken: yea, also the prince of the covenant.

Song of Songs 3:6

Who is this, she that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant? ...

Song of Songs 8:5

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awoke thee under the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth that bore thee.

Isaiah 63:1

Who is this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red garments from Bozrah, this that is glorious 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 shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, the desolations determined.

Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? And it shall wholly rise up like the Nile; and it shall surge and sink down, as the river of Egypt.

Revelation 12:15

And the serpent cast out of his mouth behind the woman water as a river, that he might make her be as one carried away by a river.

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