Jeremiah 46:20 - Tree of Life Version

²⁰ Egypt is a beautiful heifer— but a biting fly is coming— from the north it is coming!

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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.

Jeremiah 46:20 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 1:14

Then Adonai said to me: “From the north, disaster will be poured out on all the inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 25:9

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.

Jeremiah 46:10

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.

Jeremiah 46:24

The daughter of Egypt is disgraced, handed over to people of the north.”

Jeremiah 46:6

“The swift cannot flee, nor the warrior escape. In the north by the river Euphrates They stumbled and fell.

Jeremiah 47:2

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.

Jeremiah 50:11

“Because you rejoice, because you exult— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a trampling heifer and neigh like stallions,

Hosea 10:11

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.”