Jeremiah 46:12

New Living Translation

The nations have heard of your shame. The earth is filled with your cries of despair. Your mightiest warriors will run into each other and fall down together."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The nations have heard of your dishonor,and your cries fill the earth,because warrior stumbles against warriorand together both of them have fallen.

Hebrew Names Version
The nations have heard of your shame, and the eretz is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

King James Version
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

English Standard Version
The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."

New American Standard Bible
The nations have heard of your shame, And the earth is full of your cry of distress; For one warrior has stumbled over another, And both of them have fallen down together.

New Century Version
The nations have heard of your shame, and your cries fill all the earth. One warrior has run into another; both of them have fallen down together!"

Amplified Bible
The nations have heard of your disgrace and shame, And your cry [of distress] has filled the earth. For warrior has stumbled against warrior, And both of them have fallen together.

World English Bible
The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The nations haue heard of thy shame, and thy crie hath filled the lande: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong and they are fallen both together.

Legacy Standard Bible
The nations have heard of your disgrace,And the earth is full of your outcry;For one warrior has stumbled over another,And both of them have fallen down together.

Berean Standard Bible
The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together."

Contemporary English Version
All nations have heard you weep; you are disgraced, and they know it. Your troops fall to the ground, stumbling over each other.

Complete Jewish Bible
The nations have heard about your disgrace; your shrieks fill the earth as warrior trips over warrior, both falling down together.

Darby Translation
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the earth; for the mighty man stumbleth against the mighty, they are both fallen together.

Easy-to-Read Version
The nations will hear you crying. Your cries will be heard all over the earth. One ‘brave soldier' will run into another ‘brave soldier.' And both ‘brave soldiers' will fall down together."

George Lamsa Translation
The nations have heard of your shame, and your wailing has filled the land; for soldier has stumbled against soldier, and they are fallen both together by the sword.

Good News Translation
Nations have heard of your shame; everyone has heard you cry. One soldier trips over another, and both of them fall to the ground.

Lexham English Bible
The nations have heard your shame, and your cry of lament fills the earth. For warrior has stumbled against warrior, together they have fallen, the two of them.

Literal Translation
The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land. For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty; they have fallen together, both of them.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Heithen shall heare off thy shame, and the londe shalbe full of thy confucion: for one stronge man shall stomble vpon another, how then shulde they not fall both together?

American Standard Version
The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

Bible in Basic English
Your shame has come to the ears of the nations, and the earth is full of your cry: for the strong man is falling against the strong, they have come down together.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

King James Version (1611)
The nations haue heard of thy shame, and thy crie hath filled the land: for the mightie man hath stumbled against the mightie, and they are fallen both together.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The heathen haue hearde of thy shame, and the lande is full of thy confusion, for one strong man did stumble vpon another, and they are fallen both together.

English Revised Version
The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is full of thy cry: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hethene men herden thi schenschipe, and thi yellyng fillide the erthe; for a strong man hurtlide ayens a strong man, and bothe fellen doun togidere.

Update Bible Version
The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they have fallen both of them together.

Webster's Bible Translation
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they have fallen both together.

New English Translation
The nations will hear of your devastating defeat. your cries of distress will echo throughout the earth. In the panic of their flight one soldier will trip over another and both of them will fall down defeated."

New King James Version
The nations have heard of your shame, And your cry has filled the land; For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty; They both have fallen together."

New Life Bible
The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry. For one soldier has fallen over another. They have both fallen together.

New Revised Standard
The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; both have fallen together.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The nations have heard of thy disgrace, And, thine outcry, hath filled the earth, - For hero against hero, have they stumbled, Together, have fallen, the twain!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The nations have heard of thy disgrace, and thy howling hath filled the land: for the strong hath stumbled against the strong, and both are fallen together.

Revised Standard Version
The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."

Young's Literal Translation
Nations have heard of thy shame, And thy cry hath filled the land, For the mighty on the mighty did stumble, Together they have fallen -- both of them!'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The nations have heard of your shame, And the earth is full of your cry of distress; For one warrior has stumbled over another, And both of them have fallen down together.

Contextual Overview

¹² The nations have heard of your shame. The earth is filled with your cries of despair. Your mightiest warriors will run into each other and fall down together." ¹³ Then the Lord gave the prophet Jeremiah this message about King Nebuchadnezzar's plans to attack Egypt. ¹⁴ "Shout it out in Egypt! Publish it in the cities of Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes! Mobilize for battle, for the sword will devour everyone around you. ¹⁵ Why have your warriors fallen? They cannot stand, for the Lord has knocked them down. ¹⁶ They stumble and fall over each other and say among themselves, ‘Come, let's go back to our people, to the land of our birth. Let's get away from the sword of the enemy!' ¹⁷ There they will say, ‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, is a loudmouth who missed his opportunity!' ¹⁸ "As surely as I live," says the King, whose name is the Lord of Heaven's Armies, "one is coming against Egypt who is as tall as Mount Tabor, or as Mount Carmel by the sea! ¹⁹ Pack up! Get ready to leave for exile, you citizens of Egypt! The city of Memphis will be destroyed, without a single inhabitant. ²⁰ Egypt is as sleek as a beautiful heifer, but a horsefly from the north is on its way! ²¹ Egypt's mercenaries have become like fattened calves. They, too, will turn and run, for it is a day of great disaster for Egypt, a time of great punishment.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heard: Ezekiel 32:9-12, Nahum 3:8-10

thy cry: Jeremiah 14:2, Jeremiah 48:34, Jeremiah 49:21, Jeremiah 51:54, 1 Samuel 5:12, Isaiah 15:5-8, Zephaniah 1:10

stumbled: Jeremiah 46:6, Isaiah 10:4, Isaiah 19:2

Reciprocal: Nahum 2:5 - they shall stumble

Cross-References

Genesis 29:35
Once again Leah became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She named him Judah, for she said, "Now I will praise the Lord !" And then she stopped having children.

Genesis 38:7
But Er was a wicked man in the Lord 's sight, so the Lord took his life.

Genesis 38:10
But the Lord considered it evil for Onan to deny a child to his dead brother. So the Lord took Onan's life, too.

Genesis 46:1
So Jacob set out for Egypt with all his possessions. And when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

Genesis 46:3
"I am God, the God of your father," the voice said. "Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make your family into a great nation.

Genesis 46:5
So Jacob left Beersheba, and his sons took him to Egypt. They carried him and their little ones and their wives in the wagons Pharaoh had provided for them.

Genesis 46:8
These are the names of the descendants of Israel—the sons of Jacob—who went to Egypt: Reuben was Jacob's oldest son.

Genesis 46:12
The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (though Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

Genesis 46:19
The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 46:21
Benjamin's sons were Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The nations have heard of thy shame,.... Their shameful defeat and overthrow by the Chaldean army; so, after the manner of prophecy, the thing is related as done; the battle fought, and the victory obtained; and the rumour and fame of it spread among the nations, to the great mortification of this proud people:

and thy cry hath filled the land; the shrieks of the wounded; the cry of the pursued and taken; the lamentation of friends and relations for their dead; with one thing or another of this kind the whole land of Egypt was filled; yea, all the countries round about them, in confederacy with them, were filled with distress for the loss of their own; the calamity was large and spreading, and the rumour of it:

for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together; either the mighty Egyptians against the mighty Chaldeans; and though the latter were the conquerors, yet lost abundance of men; so that there were mighty ones fell on both sides: or rather, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Abarbinel, the mighty Egyptians in their flight fell, and other mighty ones of them following, stumbled at them, and fell upon them, and so both became a prey to the pursuers; or in their flight the mighty Egyptians stumbled against their mighty auxiliaries before mentioned, Jeremiah 46:9; and so both came into the hands of their enemies. The Targum is, both were slain.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The land - The earth; the world rings with the cry of grief.

Against the mighty - Against the mighty man, i. e., one mighty man against another. The champions hired to fight Egypt’s battle get in one another’s way, and so are slaughtered together.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:12. The nations have heard of thy shame — Of thy disgrace, by this prodigious slaughter of thy troops.