Jeremiah 46:20

Egypt is like a faire calfe, but destruction commeth: out of the North it commeth.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, make thee geare to goe into captiuitie: for Noph shall be waste and desolate, without an inhabitant.

21Also her hired men are in the middes of her like fat calues: they are also turned backe and fled away together: they could not stand, because the day of their destruction was come vpon them, and the time of their visitation.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 1:14Then saide the Lord vnto me, Out of the North shall a plague be spred vpon all the inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 46:6The swift shall not flee away, nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble, and fall towarde the North by the riuer Perath.

Jeremiah 46:24The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded: she shall be deliuered into the handes of the people of the North.

Jeremiah 50:11Because yee were glad and reioyced in destroying mine heritage, and because ye are growen fatte, as the calues in the grasse, and neied like strong 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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