Jeremiah 46:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 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 I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar 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 I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 46:10

For that day is a day of the Lord, the LORD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood: for the Lord, the LORD of hosts, hath 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 the people of the north.

Jeremiah 46:6

Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled, and fallen.

Jeremiah 47:2

Thus saith the LORD: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and them that dwell therein: and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

Jeremiah 50:11

Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder mine heritage, because ye are wanton as an heifer that treadeth out the corn, and neigh as strong horses;

Hosea 10:11

And Ephraim is an heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out the corn; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.