Jérémie 47:2

La Bible Ostervald

Ainsi a dit l'Éternel: Voici des eaux qui montent de l'Aquilon; elles deviennent un torrent débordé; elles inondent la terre et ce qu'elle contient, les villes et leurs habitants; les hommes poussent des cris, et tous les habitants du pays se lamentent.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Ainsi a dit l'Eternel : voici des eaux qui montent de l'Aquilon; elles seront comme un torrent d�bord�; elles se d�borderont sur la terre, et sur tout ce qui est en elle, sur la ville, et sur ses habitants; les hommes crieront, et tous les habitants du pays hurleront;

Darby's French Translation
Ainsi dit l'�ternel: Voici des eaux qui montent du nord, et elles sont comme un torrent qui d�borde; et elles d�borderont sur le pays et tout ce qu'il contient, sur la ville et ceux qui y habitent. Et les hommes crieront, et tous les habitants du pays hurleront,

Louis Segond (1910)
Ainsi parle l'Eternel: Voici, des eaux s'�l�vent du septentrion, Elles sont comme un torrent qui d�borde; Elles inondent le pays et ce qu'il contient, Les villes et leurs habitants. Les hommes poussent des cris, Tous les habitants du pays se lamentent,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

waters: Jeremiah 46:7, Jeremiah 46:8, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 28:17, Isaiah 59:19, Daniel 11:22, Amos 9:5, Amos 9:6, Nahum 1:8, Revelation 12:15, Revelation 12:16, Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:15

out of: Jeremiah 1:14, Jeremiah 46:6, Jeremiah 46:20

all that is therein: Heb. the fulness thereof, Jeremiah 8:16, *marg. Psalms 24:1, Psalms 50:12, Psalms 96:11, Psalms 98:7, 1 Corinthians 10:26, 1 Corinthians 10:28

then the: Jeremiah 46:13, Jeremiah 48:3-5, Jeremiah 48:39, Isaiah 15:2-5, Isaiah 15:8, Isaiah 22:1, Isaiah 22:4, Isaiah 22:5, Zephaniah 1:10, Zephaniah 1:11, James 5:1

Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:18 - when Jeremiah 18:22 - a cry Ezekiel 30:2 - Howl

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord, behold, waters rise up out of the north,.... Meaning an army of men, which should come in great numbers, and with great force and rapidity, like an overflowing flood. So the Targum,

"behold, people shall come from the north;''

that is, from Chaldea, which lay north of Palestine:

and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; or, "the fulness of it" u; the land of the Philistines, and carry off the men and cattle, and all the riches thereof;

the city, and them that dwell therein; not any particular or single city, as Gaza; but the several cities of Palestine, and the inhabitants of them:

then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl; not being able to do anything else; not to defend themselves, their families, and property; and seeing nothing but ruin and destruction before their eyes.

u ומלואה "et plenitudinem ejus", Schmidt, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Waters rise up - A metaphor for the assembling of an army (compare the marginal references).

Out of the north - The Chaldaean army must cross the Euphrates at Carchemish.

An overflowing flood - Or, “torrent.” To understand the metaphors of the Bible we must keep the natural phenomena of the country in mind. In Palestine rivers are torrents, dashing furiously along in the rainy seasons, and dry, or nearly so, in the summer.

All that is therein - The marginal rendering contrasts the wealth of Egypt, which forms its fullness, and the inhabitants.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 47:2. Waters rise up out of the north — Waters is a common prophetic image for a multitude of people. The north here, as in other places of this prophecy, means Chaldea.