Then the Lord said to me, ‘Disaster will be poured out from the north on all who live in the land.
Jeremiah 46:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Egypt is a beautiful young cow, but a horsefly from the north is coming against her. , Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Egypt is a very fair heifer [like Apis the bull-god, to which the country is, so to speak, espoused], but destruction [a gadfly] is coming–out of the north it is coming [against her]! American Standard Version (1901) Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come. Common English Bible Egypt is a beautiful, yes, beautiful heifer, but a horsefly from the north is coming to bite her. Catholic Public Domain Version Egypt is like a stately and finely-formed calf. The one who will goad her will come from the north. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her. |
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Disaster will be poured out from the north on all who live in the land.
I am going to send for all the families of the north” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #”and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins for ever.
That day belongs to the Lord, the God of Armies, a day of vengeance to avenge himself against his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satisfied; it will drink its fill of their blood, because it will be a sacrifice to the Lord, the God of Armies, in the northern land by the River Euphrates.
Daughter Egypt will be put to shame, handed over to a northern people.
The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the bank of the River Euphrates, they stumble and fall.
This is what the Lord says: Look, water is rising from the north and becoming an overflowing wadi. It will overflow the land and everything in it, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and every inhabitant of the land will wail.
Because you rejoice, because you celebrate – you who plundered my inheritance – because you frolic like a young cow treading grain and neigh like stallions,
Ephraim is a well-trained calf that loves to thresh, but I will place a yoke on her fine neck. I will harness Ephraim; Judah will plough; Jacob will do the final ploughing.