Jeremiah 46:20
King James Version (KJV)
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
In context
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 every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
- WEB World English Bible
- “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- A heifer very fair [is] Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.