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


In Context

17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed time pass by.

18 As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

19 You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

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

21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.

22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

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 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 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.