Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?
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?
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?
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 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. 7 "Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage? 8 Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt says, 'I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.'
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 47:2
"Look! Enemies are gathering in the north like water rising in a river. They will be like an overflowing stream. They will overwhelm the whole country and everything in it like a flood. They will overwhelm the cities and their inhabitants. People will cry out in alarm. Everyone living in the country will cry out in pain.
Isaiah 8:7-8
So look, the sovereign master is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River -- the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks.
Daniel 11:22
Armies will be suddenly swept away in defeat before him; both they and a covenant leader will be destroyed.
Song of Songs 3:6
The Speaker: Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, like a fragrant billow of myrrh and frankincense, every kind of fragrant powder of the traveling merchants?
Song of Songs 8:5
The Maidens about His Beloved: Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? The Beloved to Her Lover: Under the apple tree I aroused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.
Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, dressed in bright red, coming from Bozrah? Who is this one wearing royal attire, who marches confidently because of his great strength? "It is I, the one who announces vindication, and who is able to deliver!"
Daniel 9:26
Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction.
Amos 8:8
Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.
Revelation 12:15
Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,