Jeremiah 46:17

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There they will cry out,“Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise;he let the opportune moment pass.”

Hebrew Names Version
They cried there, Par`oh king of Mitzrayim is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.

King James Version
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

English Standard Version
Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.'

New American Standard Bible
"They shouted there, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is nothing but a big noise; He has let the appointed time pass by!'

New Century Version
In their homelands those soldiers called out, ‘The king of Egypt is only a lot of noise. He missed his chance for glory!'"

Amplified Bible
"They cried there, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed and is merely a loud noise; He has let the appointed time [of opportunity] pass by!'

World English Bible
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They did cry there, Pharaoh King of Egypt, and of a great multitude hath passed the time appointed.

Legacy Standard Bible
They called out there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a rumbling;He has let the appointed time pass by!'

Berean Standard Bible
There they will proclaim, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.'

Contemporary English Version
Give the king of Egypt this new name, "Talks-Big-Does-Nothing."

Complete Jewish Bible
They cried there, "Pharaoh king of Egypt makes noise, but he lets the right time [for action] slip by."

Darby Translation
There did they cry, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the time appointed go by.

Easy-to-Read Version
In their homelands, those soldiers will say, ‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is only a lot of noise. His time of glory is over.'"

George Lamsa Translation
They did invoke there the name of Pharaoh the Lame, king of Egypt, the troublemaker and passer of time.

Good News Translation
"Give the king of Egypt a new name— ‘Noisy Braggart Who Missed His Chance.'

Lexham English Bible
They will call there, ‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt is but a roar, he missed the opportunity.'

Literal Translation
They cried there, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is an empty roar; he has passed the appointed time.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Crie euen there: O Pharao kynge of Egipte, the tyme will bringe sedicion.

American Standard Version
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

Bible in Basic English
Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
They cried there: 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.'

King James Version (1611)
They did crie there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise, he hath passed the time appointed.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They dyd crye euen there, Pharao the kyng of Egypt is a kyng of troublesomnesse: he hath ouerpast the appointed tyme.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But I will save thee in that day, and I will by no means deliver thee into the hands of the men before whom thou art afraid.

English Revised Version
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Clepe ye the name of Farao, kyng of Egipt; the tyme hath brouyt noise.

Update Bible Version
Call the name of Pharaoh king of Egypt: A noise that let the appointed time pass by.

Webster's Bible Translation
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

New English Translation
There at home they will say, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is just a big noise! He has let the most opportune moment pass by.'

New King James Version
They cried there, "Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is but a noise. He has passed by the appointed time!'

New Living Translation
There they will say, ‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is a loudmouth who missed his opportunity!'

New Life Bible
There they cried, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise. He has passed by the time he was to have!'

New Revised Standard
Give Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the name "Braggart who missed his chance."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Proclaim ye a name, - Pharaoh, king of Egypt - a Sound! He hath overstepped the time appointed!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.

Revised Standard Version
Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, 'Noisy one who lets the hour go by.'

Young's Literal Translation
They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt [is] a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They cried there, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise; He has let the appointed time pass by!'

Contextual Overview

¹³ The Message that God gave to the prophet Jeremiah when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon was on his way to attack Egypt: ¹⁴ "Tell Egypt, alert Migdol, post warnings in Noph and Tahpanhes: ‘Wake up! Be prepared! War's coming!' ¹⁵"Why will your bull-god Apis run off? Because God will drive him off. Your ragtag army will fall to pieces. The word is passing through the ranks, ‘Let's get out of here while we still can. Let's head for home and save our skins.' When they get home they'll nickname Pharaoh ‘Big-Talk-Bad-Luck.' As sure as I am the living God" —the King's Decree, God -of-the-Angel-Armies is his name— "A conqueror is coming: like Tabor, singular among mountains; like Carmel, jutting up from the sea! So pack your bags for exile, you coddled daughters of Egypt, For Memphis will soon be nothing, a vacant lot grown over with weeds. ²⁰"Too bad, Egypt, a beautiful sleek heifer attacked by a horsefly from the north! All her hired soldiers are stationed to defend her— like well-fed calves they are. But when their lives are on the line, they'll run off, cowards every one. When the going gets tough, they'll take the easy way out. ²²"Egypt will slither and hiss like a snake as the enemy army comes in force. They will rush in, swinging axes like lumberjacks cutting down trees. They'll level the country"— God 's Decree—"nothing and no one standing for as far as you can see. The invaders will be a swarm of locusts, innumerable, past counting. Daughter Egypt will be ravished, raped by vandals from the north." ²⁵ God -of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, says, "Watch out when I visit doom on the god Amon of Thebes, Egypt and its gods and kings, Pharaoh and those who trust in him. I'll turn them over to those who are out to kill them, to Nebuchadnezzar and his military. Egypt will be set back a thousand years. Eventually people will live there again." God 's Decree. ²⁷"But you, dear Jacob my servant, you have nothing to fear. Israel, there's no need to worry. Look up! I'll save you from that far country, I'll get your children out of the land of exile. Things are going to be normal again for Jacob, safe and secure, smooth sailing. Yes, dear Jacob my servant, you have nothing to fear. Depend on it, I'm on your side. I'll finish off all the godless nations among which I've scattered you, But I won't finish you off. I have more work left to do on you. I'll punish you, but fairly. No, I'm not finished with you yet."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Pharaoh: Exodus 15:9, 1 Kings 20:10, 1 Kings 20:18, Isaiah 19:11-16, Isaiah 31:3, Isaiah 37:27-29, Ezekiel 29:3, Ezekiel 31:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:15 - princes 2 Kings 18:21 - so is Pharaoh

Cross-References

Genesis 35:26
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau." Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, "Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes, we're going to Bethel. I'm going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I've gone since." They turned over to Jacob all the alien gods they'd been holding on to, along with their lucky-charm earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree in Shechem. Then they set out. A paralyzing fear descended on all the surrounding villages so that they were unable to pursue the sons of Jacob. Jacob and his company arrived at Luz, that is, Bethel, in the land of Canaan. He built an altar there and named it El-Bethel (God-of-Bethel) because that's where God revealed himself to him when he was running from his brother. And that's when Rebekah's nurse, Deborah, died. She was buried just below Bethel under the oak tree. It was named Allon-Bacuth (Weeping-Oak). God revealed himself once again to Jacob, after he had come back from Paddan Aram and blessed him: "Your name is Jacob (Heel); but that's your name no longer. From now on your name is Israel (God-Wrestler)." God continued, I am The Strong God. Have children! Flourish! A nation—a whole company of nations!— will come from you. Kings will come from your loins; the land I gave Abraham and Isaac I now give to you, and pass it on to your descendants. And then God was gone, ascended from the place where he had spoken with him. Jacob set up a stone pillar on the spot where God had spoken with him. He poured a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Jacob dedicated the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (God's-House). They left Bethel. They were still quite a ways from Ephrath when Rachel went into labor—hard, hard labor. When her labor pains were at their worst, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid—you have another boy." With her last breath, for she was now dying, she named him Ben-oni (Son-of-My-Pain), but his father named him Ben-jamin (Son-of-Good-Fortune). Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar to mark her grave. It is still there today, "Rachel's Grave Stone." Israel kept on his way and set up camp at Migdal Eder. While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with his father's concubine, Bilhah. And Israel heard of what he did. There were twelve sons of Jacob. The sons by Leah: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn Simeon Levi Judah Issachar Zebulun. The sons by Rachel: Joseph Benjamin. The sons by Bilhah, Rachel's maid: Dan Naphtali. The sons by Zilpah, Leah's maid: Gad Asher. These were Jacob's sons, born to him in Paddan Aram.

Genesis 46:30
Israel said to Joseph, "I'm ready to die. I've looked into your face—you are indeed alive."

Genesis 49:20
Asher will become famous for rich foods, candies and sweets fit for kings.

Numbers 1:13
from Asher: Pagiel son of Ocran

Deuteronomy 33:24
Asher: "Asher, best blessed of the sons! May he be the favorite of his brothers, his feet massaged in oil. Safe behind iron-clad doors and gates, your strength like iron as long as you live."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They did cry there,.... Not the Chaldeans, deriding Pharaoh and his army, and mocking them, saying the following words, as some; nor the Egyptians in Egypt, as Kimchi, complaining of their king; much less in Carchemish, as others; since this prophecy refers to another event, time, and place; but the auxiliaries of Egypt in the field of battle; these did cry out aloud, as follows:

Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he boasted and bragged of great things he would do, and does nothing; he promised to bring a large army into the field, and talked big of attacking the enemy with great ardour and fury, and hectored and blustered as if he feared him not, and was sure of victory; but when it came to the push, his courage failed him; and it may be said of him what the man said of his nightingale, "vox et praeterea nihil", a voice, and nothing else. This was not Pharaohnecho, as the Septuagint have wrongly inserted, but Pharaohhophra, Jeremiah 44:30; or it may be supplied thus, "Pharaoh king of Egypt [is a king of] noise" l; a noisy, big, and blusterous king in words, but in deeds nothing:

he hath passed the time appointed; to join his auxiliaries, in order to give the enemy battle; and so left them in the lurch, of which they complain; or through his dilatoriness lost the proper opportunity of attacking him. Some indeed understand it, not of the king of Egypt, but of the king of Babylon; as if the sense was this, the Egyptians cried aloud, and encouraged themselves and their allies against the king of Babylon; saying, what Jeremiah the prophet said concerning Pharaoh king of Egypt and his destruction is all mere noise; there is nothing in it; for the time set by him for that event is passed and over: others, because the word has sometimes the signification of a solemn meeting or festival, take the meaning to be, that Pharaoh king of Egypt being brought to utter destruction, as the word for noise may signify, or being a noisy tumultuous prince, who brought ruin on himself and others, has thereby caused the solemn feasts to pass away m, or the festivals to cease; whether in a civil or a religious way; but the first sense seems best.

l מלך מצרים שאון "rex Aegypti, [rex] tumultus", Munster, Vatablus; "rex perturbationis", Calvin; so Ben Melech; "rex Aegypti, [vir] strepertus est", Piscator, Junius & Tremellius. m העביר המועד "transire fecit solennitatem", De Dieu.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Translate it with the versions: “They have called (or, Call ye) the name of Pharaoh king of Egypt - A noise: he hath overstepped the appointed time.” For this custom of giving prophetic names see Jeremiah 20:3; Isaiah 8:3, ... The words mean that Pharaoh is a mere empty sound, and that he has allowed the years of prosperity, which he enjoyed at the beginning of his reign, to pass by; having misused them, nothing now remains but his ruin.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:17. They did cry there — Dr. Blayney translates this cry thus: -

_______ "O Pharaoh, king of Egypt,

A tumult hath frustrated the appointed meeting."

These allies sent their excuse to Pharaoh, that the disasters they had met with had prevented them from joining him as they had intended.