Catholic Public Domain Version
"Why have your strong ones decayed? They have not stood firm, because the Lord has overthrown them. "
— Jeremiah 46:15, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them.”
“Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Jehovah did drive them. ”
“Why are your strong ones swept away? they didn't stand, because Yahweh did drive them.”
“Why will your soldiers be defeated? They will not stand because I, the LORD, will thrust them down.”
“Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because the Lord hath overthrown them.”
“Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.”
“Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them.”
The nations have heard of your disgrace, and your wailing has filled the earth. For the strong have stumbled against the strong, and both have fallen together.”
The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, concerning how Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, would arrive and strike the land of Egypt:
“Announce it to Egypt, and make it heard in Migdol, and let it resonate in Memphis and in Tahpanhes. Say this: Stand and prepare yourself! For the sword will devour everything around you.
Why have your strong ones decayed? They have not stood firm, because the Lord has overthrown them.
He has multiplied those in ruin, and each man has fallen beside his neighbor. And they will say: ‘Rise up, and let us return to our own people and to the land of our nativity, away from the face of the sword of the dove.
Call the name of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt: ‘Time has brought tumult.’
As I live, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, just as Tabor is among the mountains, and just as Carmel is beside the sea, so will he come.