Ieremia 46:5

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Ce văd? Li -i frică, dau înapoi; vitejii lor sînt bătuţi; fug fără să se mai uite înapoi... Groaza se răspîndeşte în toate părţile-zice Domnul. -

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and their: Revelation 6:15

beaten down: Heb. broken in pieces

fled apace: Heb. fled a flight, Jeremiah 46:15, Genesis 19:17, 2 Kings 7:6, 2 Kings 7:7, Nahum 2:8

fear: Jeremiah 6:25, Jeremiah 20:3, Jeremiah 20:4, *marg. Jeremiah 46:10, Jeremiah 49:29, Isaiah 19:16, Ezekiel 32:10, Revelation 6:15-17

Reciprocal: Job 18:11 - Terrors Psalms 35:4 - turned Jeremiah 30:5 - General Jeremiah 38:22 - they are Jeremiah 46:21 - they did Jeremiah 49:5 - ye shall Lamentations 2:22 - my terrors Lamentations 5:17 - our heart Ezekiel 30:13 - put

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back?.... The Egyptians, after all this preparation for war, and seeming ardent to engage in battle; and yet, when they came to it, were seized with a panic, and thrown into the utmost consternation, and turned their backs upon their enemy: these are either the words of the prophet, who had a view by a spirit of prophecy, of the consternation, confusion, and flight of the Egyptian army; or of the Lord, who foresaw all this, and represents it as if it was done because of the certainty of it; upbraiding the Egyptians with their pusillanimity and cowardice:

and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back; or, "their mighty ones are broken" s; their valiant soldiers and officers, their best troops were broken to pieces, their ranks and files, and thrown into the utmost disorder; and therefore made all the haste they could to escape the fury of the enemy, and fled with the utmost precipitation, and never stopped to look back upon their pursuers; so great their fear:

[for] fear [was] round about, saith the Lord; from whence it came; it was he that put it into them, took away their courage, and made them a "magormissabib", or "fear round about", the word here used; see

Jeremiah 20:3. The Targum is,

"they looked not back to resist them that slay with the sword, who are gathered against them round about, saith the Lord;''

their enemies surrounded them, and that was the reason fear was round about them, and both were from the Lord; or as he had said, determined, and foretold it should be.

s וגבוריהם יכתו "et fortes corum contusi sunt, vel coutunduntur", Schmidt, Cocceius, Piscator; "contriti sunt", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Literally, “Why have I seen? They are terror-stricken! they are giving way back!” The Egyptian host feels that the battle is lost, and overborne by the enemy loses heart, and in despair, yet not without a struggle, gives way. It is remarkable, that while Jeremiah in his warning addressed to Jerusalem uses the most simple and unadorned prose, his language concerning the Gentile nations is, on the contrary, full of brilliant poetry.

Look not back - turn not back. They make no halt, and no attempt to rally.

Fear was round about - The prophets watch-word, Magor-missabib (see Jeremiah 6:25).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:5. Wherefore have I seen them dismayed — What! such a numerous, formidable, and well-appointed army panic-struck? So that they have turned back-fled apace, and looked not round; while their mighty ones-their generals and commanders, striving to rally them, are beaten down.