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


In Context

17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

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

21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Jeremiah 46:20 in Other Translations

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

46:20Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.

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.