The swift shall not flee away, nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble, and [a]fall toward the North by the river Perath.

Who is this that cometh up as [b]a flood, whose waters are moved like the rivers?

Egypt riseth up like the flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers, and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth: I will destroy the city with them that dwell therein.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:6 The Babylonians shall discomfit them at the river Euphrates.
  2. Jeremiah 46:7 He derideth the boastings of the Egyptians, who thought by their riches and power to have overcome all the world, alluding to the river Nilus, which at certain times overfloweth the country of Egypt.

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