[a]Wherefore have I seen them afraid, and driven back? for their mighty men are smitten, and are fled away, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.

The swift shall not flee away, nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble, and [b]fall toward the North by the river Perath.

Who is this that cometh up as [c]a flood, whose waters are moved like the rivers?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 46:5 The Prophet had this vision of the Egyptians, which should be put to flight by the Babylonians at Carchemish.
  2. Jeremiah 46:6 The Babylonians shall discomfit them at the river Euphrates.
  3. Jeremiah 46:7 He derideth the boastings of the Egyptians, who thought by their riches and power to have overcome all the world, alluding to the river Nilus, which at certain times overfloweth the country of Egypt.

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