Then Adonai said to me: “From the north, disaster will be poured out on all the inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 46:20 - Tree of Life Version Egypt is a beautiful heifer— but a biting fly is coming— from the north it is coming! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come. Common English Bible Egypt is a beautiful, yes, beautiful heifer, but a horsefly from the north is coming to bite her. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her. |
Then Adonai said to me: “From the north, disaster will be poured out on all the inhabitants of the land.
I will soon send for and bring all the families of the north”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“and I will send for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, an enduring desolation.
For that day belongs to my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot, as a day of vengeance, to avenge Himself against His foes. The sword will devour and be satisfied and will drink its fill of their blood. For it will be a sacrifice for my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot, in the northern land by the river Euphrates.
The daughter of Egypt is disgraced, handed over to people of the north.”
“The swift cannot flee, nor the warrior escape. In the north by the river Euphrates They stumbled and fell.
Thus says Adonai: “Look, waters rising from the north will become an overflowing torrent, and overflow the land and all in it, the city and those dwelling in it and the men will cry, and every inhabitant of the land wail.
“Because you rejoice, because you exult— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a trampling heifer and neigh like stallions,
Though Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh, I put a yoke over her fair neck. I will make Ephraim pull; Judah will plow; Jacob will drag a harrow by himself.”