Jeremiah 46:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

A beautiful heifer is Egypt— a gadfly from the north lights upon her.

Cross References

Jeremiah 1:14

Then the Lord said to me: “Out of the north disaster shall break out on all the inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.

Jeremiah 46:10

That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of retribution, to gain vindication from 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 land of the north by the River Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:24

Daughter Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be handed over to a people from the north.

Jeremiah 46:6

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

Jeremiah 47:2

Thus says the Lord: See, 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 live in it. People shall cry out, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

Jeremiah 50:11

Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frisk about like a heifer on the 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 make Ephraim break the ground; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.