Jeremiah 46:20
Jeremiah chapter 46 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Context
v.19O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
v.20This passage
v.21Also 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 did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 47:2
Thus saith Jehovah: 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 them that dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 50:11
Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;
- Jeremiah 46:24
The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
- Jeremiah 1:14
Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
- Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out the grain; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.