Jeremiah 46:17

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed.

American King James Version (AKJV)

They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed.

American Standard Version (ASV)

They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.

Webster's Revision

They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

World English Bible

They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.

English Revised Version (ERV)

They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

Clarke's Jeremiah 46:17 Bible Commentary

They did cry there - Dr. Blayney translates this cry thus: -

- "O Pharaoh, king of Egypt, A tumult hath frustrated the appointed meeting."

These allies sent their excuse to Pharaoh, that the disasters they had met with had prevented them from joining him as they had intended.

Barnes's Jeremiah 46:17 Bible Commentary

Translate it with the versions: "They have called (or, Call ye) the name of Pharaoh king of Egypt - A noise: he hath overstepped the appointed time." For this custom of giving prophetic names see Jeremiah 20:3; Isaiah 8:3, ... The words mean that Pharaoh is a mere empty sound, and that he has allowed the years of prosperity, which he enjoyed at the beginning of his reign, to pass by; having misused them, nothing now remains but his ruin.

Wesley's Jeremiah 46:17 Bible Commentary

46:17 Pharaoh - Hath made a great noise, but it cometh to nothing.Passed - That is, he hath passed the time himself fixed when he would cone, and fight the Chaldeans.