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Jeremiah 46:7
Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah pronounces this rhetorical question in the midst of a oracle against Egypt, immediately after declaring that its warriors will stumble and fall by the Euphrates.
The words — The Hebrew zeh (this) and ya‘aleh (he rises) frame a question identifying the source of the coming surge, while yitga‘ashu (they surge) describes the churning waters.
The thread — The rising waters motif appears in Jeremiah 47:2 as an overflowing torrent from the north, Isaiah 8:7 as the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates, and Daniel 11:22 as a flood of forces that will be swept away.
Why it lands — The passage requires the reader to acknowledge that military might is temporary and subject to divine judgment, leaving human pride exposed to sudden defeat.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 47:2 This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail
- Isaiah 8:7 the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
- Daniel 11:22 Then a flood of forces will be swept away before him and destroyed, along with a prince of the covenant.
- Song of Solomon 3:6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
- Song of Solomon 8:5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
- Isaiah 63:1 Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
- Daniel 9:26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
- Amos 8:8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
- Revelation 12:15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.