Jeremiah 46:20
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.
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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,

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.

it cometh

Jeremiah 46:6, 10
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 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. I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.

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

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"Egypt is a pretty heifer, But a horsefly is coming from the north-- it is coming!

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Egypt is a beautiful young cow, but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.

International Standard Version
Egypt is a beautiful calf, but a horsefly from the north is surely coming.

NET Bible
Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies.
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