American Standard Version
"Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come. "
— Jeremiah 46:20, American Standard Version
“Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.”
“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.”
“Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies.”
“Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.”
“Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.”
“Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.”
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.
As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.