Jeremiah 46:20
What does Jeremiah 46:20 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 46:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862A heifer very fair <FI>is<Fi> Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.
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.
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