Jeremiah 46:20
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Jeremiah 46:20 in other translations
| BSB | Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her. |
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| WEB | “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come. |
| ASV | Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come. |
| YLT | A heifer very fair is Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her. |
| DARBY | Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north. |
| BBE | Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north. |
| Webster | Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. |
What does Jeremiah 46:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 46:13-26
13-26. Prophecy of the invasion of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar, which took place sixteen years after the taking of Jerusalem. Having spent thirteen years in the siege of Tyre, and having obtained nothing for his pains, he is promised by God Egypt for his reward in humbling Tyre (Eze 29:17-20; 30:1-31:18). The intestine commotions between Amasis and Pharaoh-hophra prepared his way (compare Note, see on Is 19:1, &c.).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 46:13-28
Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the Chaldeans shall come. Comfort and peace are spoken to the Israel of God, designed to encourage them when the judgments of God were abroad among the nations. He will be with them, and only correct them in measure; and will…
Jeremiah 46:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 46:20
- Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
- Jeremiah 47:2
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
- Jeremiah 46:6
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
- Jeremiah 46:10
For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
- Jeremiah 1:14
Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
- Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and 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 will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Jeremiah 50:11
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
- Jeremiah 46:24
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
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Context
- Jeremiah 46:19
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 46:20
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
- Jeremiah 46:21
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.
Jeremiah 46:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Becerra hermosa Egipto; mas viene destrucción, del aquilón viene. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | L’Égypte est une très belle génisse: le taon vient, il vient du nord. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Eine sehr schöne junge Kuh ist Ägypten; eine Bremse von Norden kommt, sie kommt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Vitula elegans atque formosa Ægyptus, stimulator ab aquilone veniet ei. |