Jeremiah 46:20

O fairest heifer, Egypt! the butcher from the north cometh, he cometh.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

In Context

19Appurtenances of exile make for thyself, O thou inhabitress, daughter of Egypt; for Noph shall be made a waste and be left desolate without an inhabitant.

21Also her hired troops in the midst of her are like fatted calves; for they also are turned round, are fled away together, they do not stand; because the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their punishment.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 1:14And the Lord said unto me, Out of the north shall the evil break forth over all the inhabitants of the land,

Jeremiah 46:6The swift cannot flee away, nor can the mighty man escape: toward the north by the shore of the river Euphrates do they stumble and fall.

Jeremiah 46:24Ashamed hath been made the daughter of Egypt: she hath been given up into the hand of the people of the north.

Jeremiah 50:11Though ye rejoice, though ye be glad, O ye plunderers of my heritage, though ye be grown fat as the heifer at grass, and neigh as stud-horses:

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 46:14-28

The Judgment of Egypt. ( b. c. 608.) 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together. 13 The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. 14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. 15 Why are thy… Read the whole commentary →

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