Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A heifer very fair is Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.
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.
World English Bible
Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
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 Goods for removal make for thee, O inhabitant, daughter of Egypt, For Noph becometh a desolation, And hath been burnt up, without inhabitant. 20 A heifer very fair is Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her. 21 Even her hired ones in her midst are as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity hath come on them, The time of their inspection.
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 47:2
'Thus said Jehovah: Lo, waters are coming up from the north, And have been for an overflowing stream, And they overflow the land and its fulness, The city, and the inhabitants in it, And men have cried out, And howled hath every inhabitant of the land.
Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is a trained heifer -- loving to thresh, And I -- I have passed over on the goodness of its neck, I cause one to ride Ephraim, Plough doth Judah, harrow for him doth Jacob.
Jeremiah 1:14
And Jehovah saith unto me, 'From the north is the evil loosed against all inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 46:6
The swift do not flee, nor do the mighty escape, Northward, by the side of the river Phrat, They have stumbled and fallen.
Jeremiah 46:10
And that day is to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts A day of vengeance, To be avenged of His adversaries, And the sword hath devoured, and been satisfied, And it hath been watered from their blood, For a sacrifice is to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, In the land of the north, by the river Phrat.
Jeremiah 25:9
Lo, I am sending, and have taken all the families of the north -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- even unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and have brought them in against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and have devoted them, and appointed them for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for wastes age-during.
Jeremiah 46:24
Ashamed hath been the daughter of Egypt, She hath been given into the hand of the people of the north.
Jeremiah 50:11
Because thou rejoicest, because thou exultest, O spoilers of Mine inheritance, Because thou increasest as a heifer at the tender grass, And dost cry aloud as bulls,