Jeremiah
King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 46:20
“Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.”
King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 46:20 Context
17They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. 18As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. 19O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. 20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. 21Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation. 22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. 23They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
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Translation Details for Jeremiah 46:20
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
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Wesley's Notes for Jeremiah 46:20
46:20 A serpent - Egypt is now like an heifer that makes a great bellowing, but the time shall come when she shall make a lesser noise like the hissing of a serpent. With axes - For the Chaldeans shall come with an army, armed with battle - axes, as if they came to fell wood in a forest.
Egypt is like a very faire heifer, but destruction commeth: it commeth out of the North.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"Egypt is a pretty heifer, {But} a horsefly is coming from the north--it is coming!
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Egypt is a very fair heifer; `but' destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
- Basic English Bible
Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.
- Darby Bible
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
- Webster's Bible
Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
- World English Bible
A heifer very fair [is] Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Egypt is a very fair heifer; but the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible