Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The land of Egypt is like a goodly fair calf, but one shall come out of the north to prick her forward.
New American Standard Bible
But a
King James Version
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Holman Bible
but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.
International Standard Version
Egypt is a beautiful calf, but a horsefly from the north is surely coming.
A Conservative Version
Egypt is a very fair heifer, [but] destruction out of the north has come, it has come.
American Standard Version
Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Amplified
“Egypt is a very pretty heifer,
But a horsefly (Babylonia) is coming [against her] out of the north!
Bible in Basic English
Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
Darby Translation
Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.
Julia Smith Translation
Egypt a heifer, fair of mouth; destruction came; from the north it came.
King James 2000
Egypt is like a beautiful heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Egypt [is] a beautiful heifer, [but] a gadfly from [the] north [will] come against her.
Modern King James verseion
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a stinger from the north surely comes.
NET Bible
Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies.
New Heart English Bible
Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come, it has come.
The Emphasized Bible
A calf of great beauty, is Egypt: The gad-fly, out of the North, cometh - cometh.
Webster
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
World English Bible
Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Youngs Literal Translation
A heifer very fair is Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.
Themes
Oxen » Described as » Beautiful
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » (fair,) of the beauty and wealth of egypt
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 46:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Messages Concerning Egypt
19 O thou daughter of Egypt make ready thy gear to flit. For Memphis shall be void desolate, so that no man shall dwell therein. 20 The land of Egypt is like a goodly fair calf, but one shall come out of the north to prick her forward. 21 Her waged soldiers that be with her, are like fat calves. They also shall flee away together, and not abide: for the day of their slaughter and the time of their visitation shall come upon them.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 47:2
"Thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, there shall waters arise out of the North: And shall grow to a great flood, running over and covering the land, the cities, and them that dwell therein. And the men shall cry, and all they that dwell in the land
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim was unto me, as a cow that is used to go to plow; therefore I loved him, and fell upon his fair neck. I drove Ephraim, Judah plowed, and Jacob played the husbandman:
Jeremiah 1:14
Then said the LORD unto me, "Out of the north shall come a plague upon all the dwellers of the land.
Jeremiah 46:6
The lightest of foot shall not flee away, and the worthies shall not escape. Toward the north by the water of Euphrates, they shall stumble and fall.
Jeremiah 46:10
So shall this day be unto the LORD God of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his enemies. The sword shall devour, it shall be satisfied and bathed in their blood: For the LORD God of Hosts shall have a slain offering toward the North, by the water of Euphrates.
Jeremiah 25:9
Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert.
Jeremiah 46:24
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded when she shall be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.
Jeremiah 50:11
Because ye were so cheerful and glad, to tread down mine heritage, and fulfill your pleasures, as the calves in the grass: And triumphed over them like the bulls, when ye had gotten the victory.