Jeremiah 46:20

A calf of great beauty, is Egypt: The gad-fly, out of the North, cometh—cometh.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Baggage for captivity, prepare thee, O inhabitress, daughter of Egypt; For, Noph, shall become a desolation, And be burned without inhabitant.

21Even her hirelings in her midst are like fatted calves, For, even they, have turned—have fled at once! have made no stand! For, their day of doom, hath come upon them, The time of their visitation.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 1:14Then said Yahweh unto me,—Out of the North, shall break forth calamity, against all the inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 46:6Let not the swift, flee, Nor let the hero, escape,—Northward, beside the river Euphrates, have they stumbled, and fallen.

Jeremiah 46:24Put to shame is the daughter of Egypt,—She hath been delivered into the hand of the people of the North.

Jeremiah 50:11Because they used to be glad Because they used to be uproarious When plundering mine inheritance,—Because they used to caper about as a heifer at grass, And bellow like bulls.

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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