Bible Strands
Jeremiah 46:12
The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Jeremiah delivers this oracle on behalf of the LORD regarding the impending defeat of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar’s forces. The message addresses the "Virgin Daughter of Egypt" immediately after declaring her medical remedies futile.
The words — The Hebrew גִבּוֹר (gi.Bor) denotes a warrior, and קְלוֹנֵךְ (ke.lo.Ne/kh) means your shame. The text states that warriors stumble over one another and fall together, causing their disgrace and outcry to fill the earth.
The thread — This imagery of internal collapse and public disgrace parallels Isaiah 19:2, where Egyptians fight against each other, and Nahum 3:8, which warns of a fortified city facing sudden ruin. Jeremiah 14:2 mirrors the phrase of a widespread outcry filling the land.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that military defeat and national humiliation are direct consequences of a declared outcome. It asks the reader to acknowledge that human strategy cannot avert what has been spoken.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Nahum 3:8 Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
- 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.
- Jeremiah 14:2 “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 46:6 “The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.
- 1 Samuel 5:12 Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
- Isaiah 10:4 Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- Isaiah 15:5 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
- Jeremiah 48:34 There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
- Jeremiah 49:21 At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.
- Jeremiah 51:54 “The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!