Devine Scripture

Jeremiah 46:21

Jeremiah chapter 46 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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 did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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 did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

Context

v.20Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

v.21This passage

v.22The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 46:5

    Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.

  • Ezekiel 35:5

    Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

  • Amos 6:4

    that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

  • 2 Kings 7:6

    For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

  • Ezekiel 30:4

    And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

  • Jeremiah 46:15

    Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Jehovah did drive them.