Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 47:2
Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
Jeremiah 1:14
Then Yahweh said to me, "Out of the north evil will break out on all the inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 46:6
Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
Jeremiah 46:10
For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 46:24
The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jeremiah 50:11
Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out [the grain], and neigh as strong horses;