Jérémie 47:3

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A cause du retentissement des sabots de ses puissants chevaux, du fracas de ses chars, du grondement de ses roues, les pères ne se tournent pas vers leurs enfants, tant les mains sont devenues lâches.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
A cause du bruit éclatant de la corne des pieds de ses puissants chevaux, à cause de l'impétuosité de ses chariots, et à cause du bruit de ses roues; les pères n'ont pas regardé les enfants, tant ils ont eu les mains lâches.

Darby's French Translation
au bruit retentissant des sabots de ses puissants chevaux, au fracas de ses chars, au bruit tumultueux de ses roues. Les pères ne se retourneront pas vers leurs fils, à cause de la faiblesse de leurs mains,

Louis Segond (1910)
A cause du retentissement des sabots de ses puissants chevaux, Du bruit de ses chars et du fracas des roues; Les pères ne se tournent pas vers leurs enfants, Tant les mains sont affaiblies,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the noise: Jeremiah 8:16, Jeremiah 46:9, Judges 5:22, Job 39:19-25, Ezekiel 26:10, Ezekiel 26:11, Nahum 2:4, Nahum 3:2, Nahum 3:3

the fathers: Deuteronomy 28:54, Deuteronomy 28:55, Lamentations 4:3, Lamentations 4:4

Reciprocal: Isaiah 5:28 - their horses' Isaiah 9:5 - confused noise Isaiah 23:4 - I travail Jeremiah 13:14 - even Jeremiah 18:22 - a cry Jeremiah 50:42 - shall ride Lamentations 1:6 - harts Ezekiel 23:24 - with chariots Ezekiel 24:22 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses],.... The noise of the cavalry of Nebuchadnezzar's army, as they came marching on towards the country of the Philistines; who, being mounted on strong prancing horses, made a great noise as they came along, and were heard at a distance:

at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling, of his wheels; the rattling and clatter the chariot wheels made; in which rode the chief officers and generals, with other mighty men: chariots were much used in war in those times:

the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands; they should be so frightened at the approach of the enemy, and flee with much precipitancy to provide for their own safety, that they should not think of their children, or stay to deliver and save them, the most near and dear unto them; being so terrified as not to be able to lift up their hands to defend themselves, and protect their children. The Targum is,

"the fathers shall not look back to have mercy on [their] children;''

in their fright should forget their natural affection to them, and not so much as look back with an eye of pity and compassion on them; so intent upon their own deliverance and safety.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His strong horses - War-horses, chargers.

The rushing of his chariots - Rather, the rattling, the crashing noise which they make as they advance.

For feebleness of hands - The Philistines flee in such panic that a father would not even turn round to see whether his sons were effecting their escape or not.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 47:3. The stamping of the hoofs — At the galloping sound, -

Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum,

is a line of Virgil, (AEn. viii. 596,) much celebrated; and quoted here by Blayney, where the galloping sound of the horses' hoofs is heard. In the stamping of the horses, the rushing of the chariots, and the rumbling of the wheels, our translators intended to convey the sense by the sound of the words; and they have not been unsuccessful. Their translation of the original is at the same time sufficiently literal.

The fathers shall not look back — Though their children are left behind, they have neither strength nor courage to go back to bring them off.