Jer 46:7-8 | NETfull | STEP | “Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage?

Jeremiah 46:7-8

7 “Who is this that rises like the Nile,
like its streams ^{▼▼ The word translated “streams” here refers to the streams of the Nile (cf. Exod 7:19; 8:1) for parallel usage.} ^{▼▼ The hubris of the Egyptian Pharaoh is referred to in vv. 7–8 as he compares his might to that of the Nile River whose annual flooding was responsible for the fertility of Egypt. A very similar picture of the armies of Assyria overcoming everything in its path is presented in Isa 8:7–8.} turbulent at flood stage?
8 Egypt rises like the Nile,
like its streams turbulent at flood stage.
Egypt says, ‘I will arise and cover the earth.
I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.’