World English Bible
"Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come."
— Jeremiah 46:20, World English Bible
“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 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 has let the appointed time pass by.
As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
Egypt is a very beautiful 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 didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.
The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.