Jeremiah 46:12
in Jeremiah 46The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.
KJV
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
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This verse in Jeremiah 46
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The land - The earth; the world rings with the cry of grief. Against the mighty - Against the mighty man, i. e., one mighty man against another. The champions hired to fight Egypt’s battle get in one another’s way, and so are slaughtered together.
This site's exposition
Who is this, rising like the Nile
on Jeremiah 46:7-12
Egypt pictures itself “rising like the Nile,” boasting, “I will rise and cover the earth.” The oracle turns the flood into “a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.” Verse 11 sends Egypt “to Gilead for balm,” echoing 8:22, but “for you there is no healing.”
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
A prophecy of the descent which Nebuchadnezzar should make upon the land of Egypt, and his success in it, which was accomplished some years after the destruction of Jerusalem,
The nations have heard of thy shame,....
But the measure of Egypt's iniquity is full, and now they shall not long enjoy their own; those that encroached on others shall not be themselves encroached on. The scope of the prophecy here is to show how the king of Babylon should shortly come and smite the land of Egypt, and bring the war into their own bosoms which they had formerly carried into his borders,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The nations have heard of thy shame - Of thy disgrace, by this prodigious slaughter of thy troops.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
a mighty man has stumbled upon a mighty man When they were fleeing they would stumble over each other.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
concerning the coming of Nebuchadnezzar This was a second blow, [viz.] that Nebuchadnezzar laid Egypt waste in the twenty-seventh year of his reign (Ezek.:17), as we learned in Seder Olam (ch. 26).
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁמְע֤וּ | shameu | they will hear | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| גוֹיִם֙ | goyim | nations | H1471 → | 561 times |
| קְלוֹנֵ֔ךְ | kelonekh | shame your | H7036 → | |
| וְצִוְחָתֵ֖ךְ | vetzivchatekh | and outcry your | H6682 → | |
| מָלְאָ֣ה | malah | it will be full | H4390 → | 249 times |
| הָאָ֑רֶץ | haaretz | the earth | H776 → | 2504 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| גִבּ֤וֹר | gibor | warrior | H1368 → | 158 times |
| בְּגִבּוֹר֙ | begibor | over warrior | H1368 → | 158 times |
| כָּשָׁ֔לוּ | kashalu | they will stumble | H3782 → | 62 times |
| יַחְדָּ֖יו | yachdav | together | H3162 → | 141 times |
| נָפְל֥וּ | nafelu | they will fall | H5307 → | 435 times |
| שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃ פ | sheneihem | both of them | H8147 → | 768 times |
שָׁמְע֤וּthey will hear
shameuH8085 →1159 times
גוֹיִם֙nations
goyimH1471 →561 times
קְלוֹנֵ֔ךְshame your
kelonekhH7036 →
וְצִוְחָתֵ֖ךְand outcry your
vetzivchatekhH6682 →
מָלְאָ֣הit will be full
malahH4390 →249 times
הָאָ֑רֶץthe earth
haaretzH776 →2504 times
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
גִבּ֤וֹרwarrior
giborH1368 →158 times
בְּגִבּוֹר֙over warrior
begiborH1368 →158 times
כָּשָׁ֔לוּthey will stumble
kashaluH3782 →62 times
יַחְדָּ֖יוtogether
yachdavH3162 →141 times
נָפְל֥וּthey will fall
nafeluH5307 →435 times
שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃ פboth of them
sheneihemH8147 →768 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
it leads to
- Isaiah 3:26
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
- Jeremiah 8:21
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
- 1 Samuel 5:12
Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
- Isaiah 3:26
Through
Isaiah 19:2“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
it leads to
- Judges 7:22
And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the…
- 1 Samuel 14:20
Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor.
- Matthew 10:36
A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
- Judges 7:22
Through
1 Samuel 5:12Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
it leads to
- Exodus 12:30
During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
- Exodus 12:30
Through
Jeremiah 46:6“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.
it leads to
- Daniel 11:19
After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be no more.
- Daniel 11:19
Where this verse is studied
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.