Jeremías 46:8

8 Egipto como río se hincha, y las aguas se mueven como ríos, y dijo: Subiré, cubriré la tierra, destruiré la ciudad y los que en ella moran

Jeremías 46:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 46:8

Egypt riseth up as a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the
rivers
This is the answer to the above question; that it was Egypt that was seen; the king of Egypt, as the Syriac version; he with his army, as the Targum; and which was so numerous, that it seemed as if the whole country of Egypt, all the inhabitants of it, were come along with him; these rose up like the Nile, and moved like the several sluices of it, with great velocity and force, as if they would carry all before them: and he saith, I will go up;
Pharaohnecho king of Egypt said, I will go up from my own land to the north, to meet the king of Babylon: [and] will cover the earth;
with his army: even all, the north country, the whole Babylonish empire; which he affected to be master of, grasping at, universal monarchy: I will destroy the city, and the inhabitants thereof;
which Abarbinel restrains to the city Carchemish, where his army was smitten: but it is better to interpret, the singular by the plural, as the Targum does, "I will destroy cities"; since it was not a single city he came up to take, nor would this satisfy his ambitious temper.

Jeremías 46:8 In-Context

6 No huya el ligero, ni el valiente escape; al aquilón junto a la ribera del Eufrates tropezaron y cayeron

7 ¿Quién es éste que como río sube, y cuyas aguas se mueven como ríos

8 Egipto como río se hincha, y las aguas se mueven como ríos, y dijo: Subiré, cubriré la tierra, destruiré la ciudad y los que en ella moran

9 Subid, caballos, y alborotaos, carros; y salgan los valientes: los etíopes y los de Libia que toman escudo, y los de Lidia que toman y entesan arco

10 Mas ese día será al SEÑOR Dios de los ejércitos día de venganza, para vengarse de sus enemigos; y la espada devorará y se saciará, y se embriagará de la sangre de ellos; porque matanza será al SEÑOR, Dios de los ejércitos, en tierra del aquilón junto al río Eufrates