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Jeremiah 46:20

Egypt

18 As 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.

19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

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

21 Also 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.

22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.
DARBY
Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.
BLB
A heifer very beautiful [is] Egypt, a biting fly from the north is coming against her!
ÅB
En herlig kvige er Egypt - kleggen fra nord kommer, den kommer.
OTB
Egypt er som en vakker kvige, men en klegg kommer mot henne fra nord.
B1930
En herlig kvige er Egypten - kleggen fra nord kommer, den kommer.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Hosea 10:11

    And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

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  • Jeremiah 47:2

    Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

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  • Jeremiah 46:6

    Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

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  • Jeremiah 46:10

    For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

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  • Jeremiah 1:14

    Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

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  • Jeremiah 25:9

    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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  • Jeremiah 50:11

    Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

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  • Jeremiah 46:24

    The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

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