Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
WEB
Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?
YLT
Who is this? as a flood he cometh up, As rivers do his waters shake themselves!
DBT
Who is this [that] riseth up as the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.
- Author
- Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
- Date
- Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile