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Jeremiah 46:20
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Egypt is a beautiful young cow,but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.
Mitzrayim is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
"A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a biting fly from the north has come upon her.
"Egypt is a pretty heifer, But a horsefly is coming from the north—it is coming!
"Egypt is like a beautiful young cow, but a horsefly is coming from the north to attack her.
"Egypt is a very pretty heifer, But a horsefly (Babylonia) is coming [against her] 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 faire calfe, but destruction commeth: out of the North it commeth.
Egypt is a pretty heifer,But a horsefly is coming from the north—it is coming!
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.
An enemy from the north will attack you, beautiful Egypt, like a fly biting a cow.
Egypt is a beautiful female calf; but a horsefly from the north has come to attack her.
Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.
"Egypt is like a beautiful cow. But a horsefly is coming from the north to attack her.
Egypt is like a very fair and pampered heifer, but an army from the north has come against her.
Egypt is like a splendid cow, attacked by a stinging fly from the north.
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north will come against her.
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but coming a stinger comes out of the north.
The londe of Egipte is like a goodly fayre calfe, but one shall come out of the north to dryue her forwarde.
Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
Egypt is a very fair heifer; but the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.
Egypt is like a very faire heifer, but destruction commeth: it commeth out of the North.
Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Egipt is a schapli cow calf, and fair; a prickere fro the north schal come to it.
Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction out of the north has come, it has come.
Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies.
"Egypt is a very pretty heifer, But destruction comes, it comes from the north.
Egypt is as sleek as a beautiful heifer, but a horsefly from the north is on its way!
Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But a horsefly has come upon her from the north.
A beautiful heifer is Egypt— a gadfly from the north lights upon her.
A calf of great beauty, is Egypt: The gad-fly, out of the North, cometh - cometh.
Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.
"A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a gadfly from the north has come upon her.
A heifer very fair [is] Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.
"Too bad, Egypt, a beautiful sleek heifer attacked by a horsefly from the north! All her hired soldiers are stationed to defend her— like well-fed calves they are. But when their lives are on the line, they'll run off, cowards every one. When the going gets tough, they'll take the easy way out.
"Egypt is a pretty heifer, But a horsefly is coming from the north—it is coming!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a very: Jeremiah 50:11, Hosea 10:11
it cometh: Jeremiah 46:6, Jeremiah 46:10, Jeremiah 1:14, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 47:2
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 46:24 - she shall Ezekiel 30:18 - the pomp
Cross-References
And Pharao called Iosephes name Zaphnath Paaneach, & he gaue hym to wyfe Asnath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. Then went Ioseph ouer the lande of Egypt.
I wyll go downe with thee into Egypt: and I wyll surely make thee come vp agayne, and Ioseph shall put his hande vpon thyne eyes.
And Iacob rose vp from Beer-seba: and the sonnes of Israel caryed Iacob their father, and their childre, and their wyues, in the charettes whiche Pharao had sent to cary him.
And the children of Isachar: Thola, Puuah, and Iob, and Simron.
The chyldren of Zabulon: Sered, and Elon, and Iahelel.
The children of Aser: Imnah, and Iisuah, and Iisui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the chyldren of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.
And the children of Dan: Husim.
And so the soules that came with Iacob into Egypt, whiche came out of his loynes, besides Iacobs sonnes wyues, were altogether threscore & sixe soules.
And he sent Iuda before hym vnto Ioseph, to direct his face vnto Gosen, and they came into the lande of Gosen.
And Ioseph made redy his charet, and went vp to meete Israel his father vnto Gosen, and presented him self vnto him, and he fell on his necke, and wept on his necke a good whyle.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer,.... Like a heifer that has never been under a yoke, it having never been conquered, and brought under the power of another; and like a beautiful, fat, and well fed one, abounding in wealth and riches, in pleasures and delights, in wantonness and luxury, and fit for slaughter, and ready for it. The Targum is,
"Egypt was a beautiful kingdom.''
Some think there is an illusion to the gods of Egypt, Apis and Mnevis, which were heifers or oxen, very beautiful, that had fine spots and marks upon them. Apis was worshipped at Memphis, or Noph, before mentioned, as to be wasted; and Mnevis at Heliopolis, the city of the sun, the same with Bethshemesh, whose destruction is prophesied of;
:-; and both these were of various colours, as Ovid z says, particularly of one of them, and is true of both. Pomponius Mela a observes of Apis, the god of all the people of Egypt, that it was a black ox, remarkable for certain spots; and unlike to others in its tongue and tail. And Solinus b says, it is famous for a white spot on its right side, in the form of a new moon: with whom Pliny c agrees, that it has a white spot on the right side, like the horns of the moon, when it begins to increase; and that it has a knot under the tongue, which they call a beetle. And so Herodotus d says, it is very black, and has a white square spot on the forehead; on the back, the effigies of an eagle; two hairs in the tail, and a beetle On the tongue, To which may be added what Strabo e reports, that at Memphis, the royal city of Egypt, is the temple of Apis, the same with Osiris; where the ox of Apis is fed in an enclosure, and reckoned to be a god; it is white in its forehead, and in some small parts of the body, and the rest black; by which marks and signs it is always judged what is proper to be put in its place when dead. In the Table of Iris f, published by Pignorius, it is otherwise painted and described; its head, neck, horns, buttocks, and tail, black, and the rest white; and, on the right side, a corniculated streak. Aelianus g says, these marks were in number twenty nine, and, according to the Egyptians, were symbols of things; some, of the nature of the stars; some, of the overflowing of the Nile; some, of the darkness of the world before the light, and of other things: and all agree, that the ox looked fair and beautiful, to which the allusion is; and there may be in the words an ironical sarcasm, flout, and jeer, at the gods they worshipped, which could not save them from the destruction coming upon them, as follows:
[but] destruction cometh, it cometh from the north; that is, the destruction of Egypt, which should come from Chaldea, which lay north of Egypt; and the coming of it is repeated, to denote the quickness and certainty of it: the word used signifies a cutting off, or a cutting up; in allusion to the cutting off the necks of heifers, which used to be done when slain, Deuteronomy 21:4; or to the cutting of them up, as is done by butchers: and the abstract being put for the concrete, it may be rendered, the "cutter up" h; or cutter off; men, like butchers, shall come out of Babylon, and slay and cut up, this heifer. So the Targum,
"people, that are slayers shall come out of the north against her, to spoil her i;''
that is, the Chaldean army, agreeably to the Syriac version,
"an army shall come out of the north against her.''
z "------variisque coloribus Apis", Ovid. Metamorph. l. 9. Fab. 12. a De Orbis Situ, l. 1. c. 9. b Polyhistor. c. 45. c Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 46. d L. 3. sive Thalia, c. 28. e Geograph. l. 17. p. 555. Ed. Casaubon. f Piguorii Mensa Isiaca, tab. 4. g De Animal. l. 11. c. 10. h קרץ "mactator", Grotius. So Jarchi. i So in T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 32. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Is like - Or, is. Her god was the steer Apis Jeremiah 46:15, and she is the spouse.
But destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north - More probably, “a gadfly from the north has come upon her.” This is a sort of insect which stings the oxen and drives them to madness. Compare Isaiah 7:18.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 46:20. Egypt is like a very fair heifer — Fruitful and useful; but destruction cometh out of the north, from Chaldea. It may be that there is an allusion here to Isis, worshipped in Egypt under the form of a beautiful cow.
