Jeremiah 46:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ Egypt is a beautiful young cow, but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.  ,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Egypt is a beautiful, yes, beautiful heifer, but a horsefly from the north is coming to bite her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Egypt is like a stately and finely-formed calf. The one who will goad her will come from the north.

Jeremiah 46:20 Cross References

Jeremiah 1:14

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Disaster will be poured out  from the north  on all who live in the land.

Jeremiah 25:9

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.

Jeremiah 46:10

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.

Jeremiah 46:24

Daughter Egypt will be put to shame, handed over to a northern people.

Jeremiah 46:6

The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the bank of the River Euphrates, they stumble and fall.

Jeremiah 47:2

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.

Jeremiah 50:11

Because you rejoice, because you celebrate – you who plundered my inheritance – because you frolic like a young cow treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Hosea 10:11

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.