Jeremiah 46:8 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and the waves thereof shall be moved as rivers, and he shall say: I will go up and will cover the earth: I will destroy the city, and its inhabitants.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Egypt ascends in the form of a river, and its waves will be moved like those of a river. And he will say: ‘I will ascend and cover the earth! I will perish the city and its inhabitants!’
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
Egypt rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
Egypt rises up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof.
LSV Literal Standard Version
Egypt comes up as a flood, || And the waters shake themselves as rivers. And he says, I go up; I cover the land, I destroy the city and the inhabitants in it.
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
It is Egypt that riseth up as the Nile, and [his] waters toss themselves like the rivers; and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
Egypt riseth vp like the flood, and his waters are mooued like the riuers, and he sayth, I wil goe vp, and will couer the earth: I wil destroy the citie with them that dwell therein.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers of water that rise and fall. Egypt says, 'I will go up and I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
Egypt is like the Nile that riseth up, and like the rivers whose waters toss themselves; and he saith: 'I will rise up, I will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.'
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
(this translation has no verse with this number)
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
(this translation has no verse with this number)
YLT Young's Literal Translation
Egypt, as a flood cometh up, And as rivers the waters shake themselves. And he saith, I go up; I cover the land, I destroy the city and the inhabitants in it.
FBV Free Bible Version
Egypt is rising like the Nile; its waters swirl like flooding rivers, boasting, “I will rise and sweep over the earth; I will destroy towns and the people in them.”
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Egipto como río se hincha, y las aguas se mueven como ríos, y dijo: Subiré, cubriré la tierra, destruiré la ciudad y los que en ella moran.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Es el ejército egipcio, que presume de que cubrirá la tierra como si fuera inundación, y que destruirá a todo enemigo.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
que dice: Creceré, inundaré la tierra, destruiré ciudades y a sus habitantes? Es Egipto, que crece como el Nilo, y sus aguas se encrespan como ríos.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Egipto está subiendo como el Nilo; sus aguas se arremolinan como ríos que se desbordan, presumiendo: “Me levantaré y arrasaré la tierra; destruiré las ciudades y a sus habitantes”.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Egipto sube como el Nilo y sus aguas se levantan como los ríos. Dice: «Subiré y cubriré la tierra; destruiré la ciudad y a sus habitantes».
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
(this translation has no verse with this number)
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ כַּיְאֹ֣ר יַֽעֲלֶ֔ה וְכַנְּהָר֖וֹת יִתְגֹּ֣עֲשׁוּ מָ֑יִם וַיֹּ֗אמֶר אַֽעֲלֶה֙ אֲכַסֶּה־אֶ֔רֶץ אֹבִ֥ידָה עִ֖יר וְיֹ֥שְׁבֵי בָֽהּ׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Ægyptus fluminis instar ascendit, et velut flumina movebuntur fluctus ejus, et dicet: Ascendens operiam terram: perdam civitatem, et habitatores ejus.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Во́ды є҆гѵ́пта а҆́ки рѣка̀ взы́дꙋтъ, и҆ а҆́ки рѣка̀ восколе́блютсѧ во́ды є҆гѡ̀. И҆ речѐ: взы́дꙋ и҆ покры́ю зе́млю, и҆ погꙋблю̀ гра́дъ и҆ живꙋ́щыѧ въ не́мъ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Египет поднимается, как река, и, как потоки, взволновались воды его, и говорит: "поднимусь и покрою землю, погублю город и жителей его".
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Η Αίγυπτος αναβαίνει ως πλημμύρα και τα ύδατα αυτής κυλινδούνται ως ποταμοί· και λέγει, Θέλω αναβή· θέλω σκεπάσει την γήν· θέλω αφανίσει την πόλιν και τους κατοικούντας εν αυτή.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Мисир се диже као поток и његове се воде колебају као реке; и вели: Идем, покрићу земљу, затрћу град и оне који живе у њему.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Misir se diže kao potok i njegove se vode kolebaju kao reke; i veli: Idem, pokriću zemlju, zatrću grad i one koji žive u njemu.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
تَصْعَدُ مِصْرُ كَٱلنِّيلِ، وَكَأَنْهَارٍ تَتَلَاطَمُ ٱلْمِيَاهُ. فَيَقُولُ: أَصْعَدُ وَأُغَطِّي ٱلْأَرْضَ. أُهْلِكُ ٱلْمَدِينَةَ وَٱلسَّاكِنِينَ فِيهَا.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT