Jeremiah 46:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Jeremiah 46:17

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