Jeremiah 46:1

The NET Bible®

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah 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.

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 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 to Jeremiah about the nations. ² He spoke about Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt which was encamped along the Euphrates River at Carchemish. Now this was the army that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah. ³ "Fall into ranks with your shields ready! Prepare to march into battle! ⁴ Harness the horses to the chariots! Mount your horses! Put on your helmets and take your positions! Sharpen your spears! Put on your armor! ⁵ What do I see?" says the Lord . "The soldiers are terrified. They are retreating. They have been defeated. They are overcome with terror; they desert quickly without looking back. 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.' ⁹ Go ahead and charge into battle, you horsemen! Drive furiously, you charioteers! Let the soldiers march out into battle, those from Ethiopia and Libya who carry shields, and those from Lydia who are armed with the bow. ¹⁰ But that day belongs to the Lord God who rules over all. It is the day when he will pay back his enemies. His sword will devour them until its appetite is satisfied! It will drink their blood until it is full! For the Lord God who rules over all will offer them up as 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
But Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock—even the fattest of them. And the Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,

Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to the Lord . He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 12:8
Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord .

Genesis 21:14
Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.

Genesis 21:31
That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord , the eternal God.

Genesis 22:13
Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Genesis 28:10
Meanwhile Jacob left Beer Sheba and set out for Haran.

Genesis 28:13
and the Lord stood at its top. He said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father—the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears—had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you 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.