And יהוה said to me, “Out of the north evil is set loose on all the inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 46:20 - The Scriptures 2009 “Mitsrayim is like a very pretty heifer, but destruction comes, it comes from the north. 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. |
And יהוה said to me, “Out of the north evil is set loose on all the inhabitants of the land.
see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,’ declares יהוה, ‘and Neḇuḵaḏretstsar the sovereign of Baḇel, My servant, and shall bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and shall put them under the ban, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.
For this is the day of the Master יהוה of hosts, a day of vengeance, to revenge Himself on His adversaries. And the sword shall devour, and be satisfied and made drunk with their blood. For the Master יהוה of hosts has a slaughtering in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
“The daughter of Mitsrayim shall be put to shame. She shall be given into the hand of the people of the north.”
Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. They shall stumble and fall toward the north, by the River Euphrates.
Thus said יהוה, “See, waters are rising out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood. And they shall overflow the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell within. And men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
“Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, you who plunder My inheritance, because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, and you neigh like stallions,
“And Ephrayim is a trained heifer, loving to thresh grain. But I Myself shall pass over her comely neck – I put Ephrayim to the yoke, Yehuḏah ploughs, Ya‛aqoḇ harrows for him.”