King James Version
Jeremiah 46:20 in the King James Version says “Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 46 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.”
Jeremiah 46:20 · KJV
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. furnish: Heb. make thee instruments of captivity
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. fatted: Heb. bullocks of the stall
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.
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“of the north”
H6828properly, hidden, i.e., dark; used only of the north as a quarter (gloomy and unknown)
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