Jeremiah 46:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. It said, “Let me rise; let me cover the earth; let me destroy cities and their inhabitants.”

Cross References

Ezekiel 29:3

speak and say: Thus says the Lord God: I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon sprawling in the midst of its channels, saying, “My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.”

Ezekiel 32:2

Mortal, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams.

Daniel 11:10

“His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces that shall advance like a flood and pass through and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.

Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who lives in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?