Jeremiah 46:1

New Century Version

The Lord spoke this word to Jeremiah the prophet about 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.

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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord spoke this word to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations: ² This message is to Egypt. It is about the army of Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at the city of Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. This was in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah. This is the Lord 's message to Egypt: ³ "Prepare your shields, large and small, and march out for battle! ⁴ Harness the horses and get on them! Go to your places for battle and put on your helmets! Polish your spears. Put on your armor! ⁵ What do I see? That army is terrified, and the soldiers are running away. Their warriors are defeated. They run away quickly without looking back. There is terror on every side!" says the Lord . ⁶ "The fast runners cannot run away; the strong soldiers cannot escape. They stumble and fall in the north, by the Euphrates River. ⁷ Who is this, rising up like the Nile River, like strong, fast rivers? ⁸ Egypt rises up like the Nile River, like strong, fast rivers. Egypt says, ‘I will rise up and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people in them!' ⁹ Horsemen, charge into battle! Chariot drivers, drive hard! March on, brave soldiers— soldiers from the countries of Cush and Put who carry shields, soldiers from Lydia who use bows. ¹⁰ "But that day belongs to the Lord God All-Powerful. At that time he will give those people the punishment they deserve. The sword will kill until it is finished, until it satisfies its thirst for their blood. The Lord God All-Powerful will offer a sacrifice in the land of the north, by the Euphrates River.

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 brought the best parts from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his gift,

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord . He took some of all the clean birds and animals, and he burned them on the altar as offerings to God.

Genesis 12:8
Then he traveled from Shechem to the mountain east of Bethel and set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai was to the east. There Abram built another altar to the Lord and worshiped him.

Genesis 21:14
Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a leather bag full of water. He gave them to Hagar and sent her away. Carrying these things and her son, Hagar went and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.

Genesis 21:31
So that place was called Beersheba because they made a promise to each other there.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba and prayed to the Lord , the God who lives forever.

Genesis 22:13
Then Abraham looked up and saw a male sheep caught in a bush by its horns. So Abraham went and took the sheep and killed it. He offered it as a whole burnt offering to God, and his son was saved.

Genesis 28:10
Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

Genesis 28:13
Then Jacob saw the Lord standing above the ladder, and he said, "I am the Lord , the God of Abraham your grandfather, and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are now sleeping.

Genesis 31:42
But the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, was with me. Otherwise, you would have sent me away with nothing. But he saw the trouble I had and the hard work I did, and last night he corrected you."

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.