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Jérémie 46:8

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8 C'est l'Egypte. Elle s'avance comme le Nil, Et ses eaux sont agitées comme les torrents. Elle dit: Je monterai, je couvrirai la terre, Je détruirai les villes et leurs habitants.

Jérémie 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.

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Jérémie 46:8 In-Context

6 Que le plus léger ne trouve aucun salut dans la fuite, Que le plus vaillant n'échappe pas! Au septentrion, sur les rives de l'Euphrate, Ils chancellent, ils tombent.
7 Qui est celui qui s'avance comme le Nil, Et dont les eaux sont agitées comme les torrents?
8 C'est l'Egypte. Elle s'avance comme le Nil, Et ses eaux sont agitées comme les torrents. Elle dit: Je monterai, je couvrirai la terre, Je détruirai les villes et leurs habitants.
9 Montez, chevaux! précipitez-vous, chars! Qu'ils se montrent, les vaillants hommes, Ceux d'Ethiopie et de Puth qui portent le bouclier, Et ceux de Lud qui manient et tendent l'arc!
10 Ce jour est au Seigneur, à l'Eternel des armées; C'est un jour de vengeance, où il se venge de ses ennemis. L'épée dévore, elle se rassasie, Elle s'enivre de leur sang. Car il y a des victimes du Seigneur, de l'Eternel des armées, Au pays du septentrion, sur les rives de l'Euphrate.
The Louis Segond 1910 is in the public domain.

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