Jeremiah 46:12

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!'

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 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."

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."

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 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!' ¹³ The word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the coming in of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to smite the land of Egypt: ¹⁴ `Declare ye in Egypt, and sound in Migdol, Yea, sound in Noph, and in Tahpanhes say: Station thyself, yea, prepare for thee, For a sword hath devoured around thee, ¹⁵ Wherefore hath thy bull been swept away? He hath not stood, because Jehovah thrust him away. ¹⁶ He hath multiplied the stumbling, Yea one hath fallen upon his neighbour, And they say: Rise, and we turn back to our people, And unto the land of our birth, Because of the oppressing sword. ¹⁷ They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt [is] a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time. ¹⁸ I live -- an affirmation of the King, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name, Surely as Tabor [is] among mountains, And as Carmel by the sea -- he cometh in, ¹⁹ Goods for removal make for thee, O inhabitant, daughter of Egypt, For Noph becometh a desolation, And hath been burnt up, without inhabitant. ²⁰ A heifer very fair [is] Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her. ²¹ Even her hired ones in her midst [are] as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity hath come on them, The time of their inspection.

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
And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith this time, `I praise Jehovah;' therefore hath she called his name Judah; and she ceaseth from bearing.

Genesis 38:7
and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.

Genesis 38:10
and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.

Genesis 46:1
And Israel journeyeth, and all that he hath, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, and sacrificeth sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac;

Genesis 46:3
And He saith, `I [am] God, God of thy father, be not afraid of going down to Egypt, for for a great nation I set thee there;

Genesis 46:5
And Jacob riseth from Beer-Sheba, and the sons of Israel bear away Jacob their father, And their infants, and their wives, in the waggons which Pharaoh hath sent to bear him,

Genesis 46:8
And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who are coming into Egypt: Jacob and his sons, Jacob's first-born, Reuben.

Genesis 46:12
And sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah, (and Er and Onan die in the land of Canaan.) And sons of Pharez are Hezron and Hamul.

Genesis 46:19
Sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 46:21
And sons of Benjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and 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.