Jeremiah 46:5 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 46:5

Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.

BSB

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ASV

Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.

KJV

Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.

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Commentary

4 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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 Jer 6:25).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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,

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Valiant men are not always victorious. They are upbraided with their utter inability ever to recover this blow, which should be fatal to their nation,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The language of astonishment, that an army so well equipped should be driven back in "dismay." The prophet sees this in prophetic vision. fled apace--literally, "fled a flight," that is, flee precipitately. look not back--They do not even dare to look back at their pursuers.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מַדּ֣וּעַ	ma.Du.a'	why?	H4069 →
רָאִ֗יתִי	ra.'I.ti	have I seen	H7200 →
הֵ֣מָּה	He.mah	they	H1992 →
חַתִּים֮	cha.Tim	[will be] terrified	H2844 →
נְסֹגִ֣ים	ne.so.Gim	[they will be] turned back	H5472 →
אָחוֹר֒	'a.chOr	backwards	H268 →
וְגִבּוֹרֵיהֶ֣ם	ve.gi.bo.rei.Hem	and warriors their	H1368 →
יֻכַּ֔תּוּ	yu.Ka.tu	they will be crushed	H3807 →
וּמָנ֥וֹס	u.ma.Nos	and flight	H4498 →
נָ֖סוּ	Na.su	they will flee	H5127 →
וְלֹ֣א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
הִפְנ֑וּ	hif.Nu	they will turn back	H6437 →
מָג֥וֹר	ma.Gor	terror	H4032 →
מִסָּבִ֖יב	mi.sa.Viv	[will be] from round about	H5439 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 19:16
In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:30
  The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
- Nahum 3:13
  Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
- Jeremiah 50:37
  A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
- Isaiah 11:15
  The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men…
- Jeremiah 30:5–7
  Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.
Through
Jeremiah 6:25
Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
leads to
- Jeremiah 49:29
  They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ‘Terror is on every side!’
Through
Jeremiah 46:21
Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them—the time…
leads to
- Obadiah 1:13
  You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of…
- 2 Kings 7:6
  For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the…

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Jeremiah

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Jeremiah