Jeremiah 46:20

A heifer very fair [is] Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Goods for removal make for thee, O inhabitant, daughter of Egypt, For Noph becometh a desolation, And hath been burnt up, without inhabitant.

21Even her hired ones in her midst [are] as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity hath come on them, The time of their inspection.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 1:14And Jehovah saith unto me, 'From the north is the evil loosed against all inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 46:6The swift do not flee, nor do the mighty escape, Northward, by the side of the river Phrat, They have stumbled and fallen.

Jeremiah 46:24Ashamed hath been the daughter of Egypt, She hath been given into the hand of the people of the north.

Jeremiah 50:11Because thou rejoicest, because thou exultest, O spoilers of Mine inheritance, Because thou increasest as a heifer [at] the tender grass, And dost cry aloud as 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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