Jeremiah 46:17
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
Jeremiah 46:17 in other translations
| BSB | There they will cry out: ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.’ |
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| WEB | They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.’ |
| ASV | They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by. |
| YLT | They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt is a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time. |
| DARBY | There did they cry, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the time appointed go by. |
| BBE | Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by. |
| Webster | They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. |
What does Jeremiah 46:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 46:13-26
13-26. Prophecy of the invasion of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar, which took place sixteen years after the taking of Jerusalem. Having spent thirteen years in the siege of Tyre, and having obtained nothing for his pains, he is promised by God Egypt for his reward in humbling Tyre (Eze 29:17-20; 30:1-31:18). The intestine commotions between Amasis and Pharaoh-hophra prepared his way (compare Note, see on Is 19:1, &c.).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 46:13-28
Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the Chaldeans shall come. Comfort and peace are spoken to the Israel of God, designed to encourage them when the judgments of God were abroad among the nations. He will be with them, and only correct them in measure; and will…
Jeremiah 46:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 46:17
- Isaiah 19:11-16
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. …
- Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
- 1 Kings 20:10
And Ben–hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
- Isaiah 37:27-29
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
- Ezekiel 31:18
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
- Ezekiel 29:3
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
- Isaiah 31:3
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
- 1 Kings 20:18
And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
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Context
- Jeremiah 46:16
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
- Jeremiah 46:17
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
- Jeremiah 46:18
As I live, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
Jeremiah 46:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Allí gritaron: Faraón rey de Egipto, rey de revuelta: dejó pasar el tiempo señalado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ils ont crié là: Le Pharaon, roi d’Égypte, n’est qu’un bruit; il a laissé passer le temps! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Man rief daselbst: Der Pharao, der König von Ägypten, ist verloren er hat die bestimmte Zeit vorübergehen lassen! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Vocate nomen Pharaonis regis Ægypti: tumultum adduxit tempus. |