20Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.


In Context

17 Call ye the name of Pharao king Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.

18 As I live, (saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts,) as Thabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

19 Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and uninhabited.

20 Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.

21 Her hirelings also that lived in the midst of her, like fatted calves are turned back, and are fled away together, and they could not stand, for the day of their slaughter is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

22 Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.

Jeremiah 46:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

46:20Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

46:20"Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly is coming against her from the north.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

46:20Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

46:20Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

46:20Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

46:20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

46:20Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

46:20A heifer very fair is Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

46:20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.