King James Version with Apocrypha
"Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north."
— Jeremiah 46:20, King James Version with Apocrypha
“Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.”
“Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come. ”
“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.”
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
As I live, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
The voice thereof shall go like a 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 the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.