Jeremiah 46:20 “Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming aga…”

Jeremiah 46:20

Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

World English Bible

“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.

American Standard Version

Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

Geneva Bible 1599

Egypt is like a faire calfe, but destruction commeth: out of the North it commeth.

Darby Translation

Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.

Young's Literal Translation

A heifer very fair [is] Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.

Bible in Basic English

Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.

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Cross references

“a very”

Hosea 10:11 Jeremiah 50:11

Hosea 10:11 · BSB

Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.

Jeremiah 50:11 · BSB

“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

“it cometh”

Jeremiah 47:2 Jeremiah 46:6 Jeremiah 1:14 Jeremiah 46:10 Jeremiah 25:9

Jeremiah 47:2 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and…

Jeremiah 46:6 · BSB

“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.

Jeremiah 1:14 · BSB

Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.

Jeremiah 46:10 · BSB

For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in t…

Jeremiah 25:9 · BSB

behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surro…

Also

Jeremiah 46:24

Jeremiah 46:24 · BSB

The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

21Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them— the time of their punishment.

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