Isaiæ 47:2

Nova Vulgata

Haec dicit Dominus: "Ecce, aquae ascendunt ab aquilone et erunt quasi torrens inundans et operient terram et plenitudinem eius, urbem et habitatores eius. Clamabunt homines, et ululabunt omnes habitatores terrae

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Tolle molam, et mole farinam ; denuda turpitudinem tuam ; discooperi humerum, revela crura, transi flumina.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
[H�c dicit Dominus:
Ecce aqu� ascendunt ab aquilone,
et erunt quasi torrens inundans,
et operient terram et plenitudinem ejus,
urbem et habitatores ejus.
Clamabunt homines,
et ululabunt omnes habitatores terr�,

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.