Jérémie 46:8

8 C'est l'Égypte. Elle monte comme le Nil; ses eaux s'émeuvent comme les fleuves; elle dit: "Je monterai; je couvrirai la terre; je détruirai les villes et ceux qui y habitent! "

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.

Jérémie 46:8 In-Context

6 Que le plus léger ne s'enfuie point, et que le fort n'échappe pas! Au nord, sur les bords du fleuve d'Euphrate, ils chancellent et tombent!

7 Qui est celui qui monte comme le Nil, et dont les eaux s'émeuvent comme les fleuves?

8 C'est l'Égypte. Elle monte comme le Nil; ses eaux s'émeuvent comme les fleuves; elle dit: "Je monterai; je couvrirai la terre; je détruirai les villes et ceux qui y habitent! "

9 Montez, chevaux; chars, précipitez-vous! Et que les hommes vaillants se montrent: ceux de Cush et de Put qui manient le bouclier, et les Ludiens qui manient et bandent l'arc!

10 Ce jour est au Seigneur, à l'Éternel des armées; c'est un jour de vengeance, pour se venger de ses ennemis. L'épée dévore, s'assouvit, s'enivre de leur sang; car il y a un sacrifice au Seigneur, l'Éternel des armées, dans le pays du nord, sur les bords de l'Euphrate.