Jeremiah 46:20
World English Bible (WEB)
“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.
In context
18 “As I live,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.
19 You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burned up, without inhabitant.
20 “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.
21 Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.
22 Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
Jeremiah 46:20 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.
- KJV King James Version
- Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
- 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.