Jeremiah 46:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.”
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“Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A heifer very fair <FI>is<Fi> Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 46:20 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 1:14Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
- Jeremiah 25:9behold, 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 surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 46:6“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.
- Jeremiah 46:10For 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 the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
- Jeremiah 46:24The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”
- Jeremiah 47:2This 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 all who dwell in the land will wail
- Jeremiah 50:11“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,
- Hosea 10:11Ephraim 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.
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