Jeremiah 46:1

New American Standard Bible (1995)

That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah about the nations:

Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD which came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the nations.

King James Version
The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;

English Standard Version
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

New American Standard Bible
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

New Century Version
The Lord spoke this word to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations:

Amplified Bible
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the [Gentile] nations.

World English Bible
The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The wordes of the Lord, which came to Ieremiah the Prophet against the Gentiles,

Legacy Standard Bible
That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Berean Standard Bible
This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord often told me what to say about the different nations of the world.

Complete Jewish Bible
This is the word of Adonai that came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the nations.

Darby Translation
The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Easy-to-Read Version
These messages about different nations came to Jeremiah the prophet from the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
THE word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet to prophesy concerning the Gentiles:

Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me about the nations,

Lexham English Bible
The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Literal Translation
The Word of Jehovah which was to Jeremiah the prophet against the nations:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Here folowe the wordes off the LORDE to the prophet Ieremy, which he spake vnto the Gentiles.

American Standard Version
The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Bible in Basic English
The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

King James Version (1611)
The word of the Lord which came to Ieremiah the Prophet, against the Gentiles,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare folowe the wordes of the Lorde to the prophete Ieremie, which he spake against [all] the gentiles.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass in the ninth month of Sedekias king of Juda, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

English Revised Version
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The word of the Lord, that was maad to Jeremye, the profete, ayens hethene men;

Update Bible Version
The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Webster's Bible Translation
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;

New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the nations.

New King James Version
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the nations.

New Living Translation
The following messages were given to Jeremiah the prophet from the Lord concerning foreign nations.

New Life Bible
This is the Word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the man of God about the nations.

New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the nations.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So much of the word of Yahweh as came unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the Gentiles,

Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Young's Literal Translation
That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations,

THE MESSAGE
God 's Messages through the prophet Jeremiah regarding the godless nations.

Contextual Overview

¹ That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.² To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: ³ "Line up the shield and buckler, And draw near for the battle! ⁴ "Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, And take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the scale-armor! ⁵ "Why have I seen it? They are terrified, They are drawing back, And their mighty men are defeated And have taken refuge in flight, Without facing back; Terror is on every side!" Declares the LORD. ⁶ Let not the swift man flee, Nor the mighty man escape; In the north beside the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen. ⁷ Who is this that rises like the Nile, Like the rivers whose waters surge about? ⁸ Egypt rises like the Nile, Even like the rivers whose waters surge about; And He has said, "I will rise and cover that land; I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants." ⁹ Go up, you horses, and drive madly, you chariots, That the mighty men may march forward: Ethiopia and Put, that handle the shield, And the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow. ¹⁰ For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of hosts, A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes; And the sword will devour and be satiated And drink its fill of their blood; For there will be a slaughter for the Lord GOD of hosts, In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The word: This is a general title to the prophecies contained in this and the following chapters, concerning different nations which had less or more connexion with the Jews, either as enemies, neighbours, or allies. They were not delivered at the same time: to some the date is annexed; in others it is left uncertain.

against: Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 25:15-29, Genesis 10:5, Numbers 23:9, Zechariah 2:8, Romans 3:29

Reciprocal: Psalms 79:6 - upon Isaiah 19:1 - Egypt Jeremiah 9:26 - Egypt Jeremiah 25:17 - and made Jeremiah 43:11 - he shall smite Lamentations 1:21 - thou wilt Ezekiel 28:26 - when I Ezekiel 30:7 - General Ezekiel 30:22 - and that Habakkuk 1:17 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering;

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 12:8
Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

Genesis 22:13
Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.

Genesis 28:10
Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

Genesis 28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants.

Genesis 31:42
"If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles. Or "nations"; distinguished from the Jews; not all the nations of the world, but some hereafter mentioned, as the Egyptians, Philistines, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Syrians, Arabians, Persians, and Chaldeans: or "concerning the nations" p; the above mentioned; though the prophecies delivered out concerning them are all against them, and not in their favour. Mention is made of Jeremiah's prophesying against all the nations in Jeremiah 25:13; after which follow the several prophecies contained in the next chapters in the Septuagint and Arabic versions, as they stand in the Polyglot Bible.

p על גוים "super gentes", Montanus; "de gentibus", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Against the Gentiles - Or, concerning the nations Jer. 46–49:33.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XLVI

The difference between the preceding and the subsequent

prophecies in point of composition is very remarkable; the

last excelling much in majesty and elegance. This chapter (of

which the first verse forms a general title to this and the

five chapters following) contains two distinct prophecies

relating to Egypt. The first was delivered previous to an

engagement between Pharaoh-necho, king of Egypt, and

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; in which the Egyptians were

routed in Carchemish with great slaughter, as here predicted.

The prophet sees the mighty preparations; but they are all

declared to be of no avail, as God had decreed their fall, 1-6.

The King of Egypt, however, is represented as marching with all

the confidence of victory, like a river overflowing its banks,

and threatening all around with its inundation, 7, 8.

But this immense armament of Pharaoh-necho, consisting of

various nations, shall, by a righteous judgment of God, receive

such a signal overthrow near the river Euphrates, that the

political consequence of Egypt shall be thereby irretrievably

ruined, and its remaining power become contemptible in the

sight of the nations, 9-12.

The other prophecy, beginning at the thirteenth verse, relates

to the memorable overthrow of the Egyptians by Nebuchadnezzar,

subsequent to his siege of Tyre, in the sixteenth year after

the destruction of Jerusalem, 13-26.

The promise, in the conclusion of the chapter, of preservation

to the Jews, (who have for many ages continued a distinct

people, when the various nations of antiquity who oppressed

them, or with whom they had any intercourse, have long ago

ceased to have any separate and visible existence,) has been

most remarkably fulfilled; and is a very signal act of

providence, and a pledge of the restoration of Israel to the

Divine favour, when the time of the Gentiles shall be

fulfilled, 27, 28.

NOTES ON CHAP. XLVI

Verse Jeremiah 46:1. The word of the Lor d -against the Gentiles — This is a general title to the following collection of prophecies, written concerning different nations, which had less or more connexion with the Jews, either as enemies, neighbours, or allies.

They were not written at the same time; and though some of them bear dates, yet it would be difficult to give them any chronological arrangement. Dahler's mode of ascertaining the times of their delivery may be seen in the table in the introduction.