Jeremiah 46:20

Translations

Modern

Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.

Traditional

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

Literal

A heifer very beautiful is Egypt, a biting fly from the north is coming against her!

Latin

Vitula elegans atque formosa Ægyptus, stimulator ab aquilone veniet ei.

Original

Hebrew

English

Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.

Notes

Jeremiah 46:13–24

The defeat at Carchemish caused chaos in Egypt and its armies. The Lord was judging Egypt.

Theme notes and profiles

Nebuchadnezzar II Messages Against the Nations The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 47:2
This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.
Jeremiah 46:6
“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.
Jeremiah 1:14
Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
Jeremiah 46:10
For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
Jeremiah 25:9
…behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
Jeremiah 46:24
The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”
Jeremiah 50:11
“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Places

Egypt: Ancient nation; Israelites enslaved there; plagues and Exodus

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament) Book of Jeremiah Gadfly Hophra Jeremiah (Person) Nations Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadrezzar Necho, Nechoh, Neco, Necoh Oholah and Oholibah

Topics

Babylon: City of Prophecies Concerning Babylon: Empire of Prophecies of Conquests By The Ox: Beautiful The Ox: Heifer: (Fair) of the Beauty and Wealth of Egypt

Jeremiah 46:20

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