Jeremiah 46:20

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Egypt [is] a very beautiful heifer, || Destruction comes into her from the north.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE26:20

Egypt is a fair heifer, but destruction from the north is come upon her.

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WLC

עֶגְלָ֥ה יְפֵֽה־פִיָּ֖ה מִצְרָ֑יִם קֶ֥רֶץ מִצָּפ֖וֹן בָּ֥א בָֽא׃

LXX-Br26:20

Δάμαλις κεκαλλωπισμένη Αἴγυπτος, ἀπόσπασμα ἀπὸ Βοῤῥᾶ ἦλθεν ἐπʼ αὐτὴν,

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• 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,…
• 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.
• 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…
• Jeremiah 1:14Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
• Jeremiah 46:6“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.
• 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…
• 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,
• Jeremiah 46:24The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”

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