Jeremiah 46:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrez´zar 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 a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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 Euphra´tes.

Jeremiah 46:24

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

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 Euphra´tes.

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.

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;

Hosea 10:11

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