Jeremiah 46:16

He increases the numbers of those who stumble. Each soldier falls against the next one. They are saying, 'Get up. Let us go home. 1 Let us go back to our own people, to our native land. Let us leave this sword that is beating us down.' 1

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He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

In Context

15Why are your mighty ones face-down on the ground? They will not stand, because I, Yahweh, have pushed them to the ground. 1

17They proclaimed there, 'Pharaoh the king of Egypt is only a noise, one who has let his opportunity slip away.' 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:37You will stumble over each other as though you were running from the sword, even though no one is chasing you. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

Jeremiah 46:21The hired soldiers in her midst are like a fattened bull, but they will also turn away and run away. 1 They will not stand together, for the day of their disaster is coming against them, the time of their punishment. 1

Jeremiah 51:9'We wished to heal Babylon, but she is not healed. Let us all leave her and go away, 1 to our own land. For her guilt reaches up to the heavens; it is piled up to the clouds. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 46:14-28

The Judgment of Egypt. ( b. c. 608.) 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together. 13 The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. 14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. 15 Why are thy… Read the whole commentary →

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