Add parallel Print Page Options

16 He multiplied the ones[a] stumbling.
    Furthermore, each one fell to his neighbor,
and said, ‘Stand up, and let us return to our people
    and to the land of our birth,
    because of[b] the presence[c] of the sword of the oppressor.’
17 They will call there,
‘Pharaoh, the king of Egypt is but a roar,
    he missed the opportunity.’[d]
18 As I live,”[e] declares[f] the king,
    Yahweh of hosts is his name,
“one will come like Tabor among the mountains
    and like Carmel by the sea.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:16 Hebrew “one”
  2. Jeremiah 46:16 Literally “from”
  3. Jeremiah 46:16 Literally “face”
  4. Jeremiah 46:17 Literally “he has allowed to pass over the appointed time”
  5. Jeremiah 46:18 Literally “Life I”
  6. Jeremiah 46:18 Literally “a declaration of”

16 They will stumble(A) repeatedly;
    they will fall(B) over each other.
They will say, ‘Get up, let us go back
    to our own people(C) and our native lands,
    away from the sword of the oppressor.’(D)
17 There they will exclaim,
    ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise;(E)
    he has missed his opportunity.(F)

18 “As surely as I live,” declares the King,(G)
    whose name is the Lord Almighty,
“one will come who is like Tabor(H) among the mountains,
    like Carmel(I) by the sea.

Read full chapter