Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Jeremiah 46:7
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Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?
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Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
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“Who is this who rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?
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Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
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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.
6 “The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.
7 Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?
8 Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
9 Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth—Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow.
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