Jeremiah 46:20 - Revised Standard Version

²⁰ “A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a gadfly from the north has come upon 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.

Jeremiah 46:20 Cross References

Jeremiah 1:14

Then the Lord said to me, “Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 46:10

That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated, and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:24

The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame, she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north.”

Jeremiah 46:6

The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.

Jeremiah 47:2

“Thus says the Lord: Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.

Jeremiah 50:11

“Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you are wanton as a heifer at grass, and neigh like stallions,

Hosea 10:11

Ephraim was a trained heifer that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke, Judah must plow, Jacob must harrow for himself.