Jeremiah 46:20 - Forerunner Commentary

Jeremiah 46:20

18 “As I live,” says the King,
^aWhose name is the Lord of hosts,
“Surely as Tabor is among the mountains
And as Carmel by the sea, so he shall come.

19 O ^ayou daughter dwelling in Egypt,
Prepare yourself ^bto go into captivity!
For¹ Noph shall be waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

20 “Egypt is a very pretty ^aheifer,
But destruction comes, it comes ^bfrom the north.

21 Also her mercenaries are in her midst like¹ fat bulls,
For they also are turned back,
They have fled away together.
They did not stand,
For ^athe day of their calamity had come upon them,
The time of their punishment.

22 ^aHer noise shall go like a serpent,
For they shall march with an army
And come against her with axes,
Like those who chop wood.

23 “They shall ^acut down her forest,” says the Lord,
“Though it cannot be searched,
Because they are innumerable,
And more numerous than ^bgrasshoppers.

24 The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed;
She shall be delivered into the hand
Of ^athe people of the north.”

25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring punishment on¹ Amon of ^aNo, and Pharaoh and Egypt, ^bwith their gods and their kings—Pharaoh and those who ^ctrust in him.

26 ^aAnd I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of his servants. ^bAfterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old,” says the Lord.

God Will Preserve Israel

27 “But^a do not fear, O My servant Jacob,
And do not be dismayed, O Israel!
For behold, I will ^bsave you from afar,
And your offspring from the land of their captivity;
Jacob shall return, have rest and be at ease;
No one shall make him afraid.

28 Do not fear, O Jacob My servant,” says the Lord,
“For I am with you;
For I will make a complete end of all the nations
To which I have driven you,
But I will not make ^aa complete end of you.
I will rightly ^bcorrect you,
For I will not leave you wholly unpunished.”

Verse Comparison: Jeremiah 46:20

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American Standard Version
Egypt is a very fair heifer; `but' destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

Amplified® Bible
Egypt is a very fair heifer [like Apis the bull-god, to which the country is, so to speak, espoused], but destruction [a gadfly] is coming--out of the north it is coming [against her]!

Contemporary English Version
An enemy from the north will attack you, beautiful Egypt, like a fly biting a cow.

Darby English Version
Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.

Good News Bible
Egypt is like a splendid cow, attacked by a stinging fly from the north.

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

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

New International Version
"Egypt is a beautiful heifer,
but a gadfly is coming
against her from the north.

New King James Version
“ Egypt is a very pretty heifer,
But destruction comes, it comes from the north.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Egypt resembles a pretty heifer, But a horsefly will come from the north--it comes!

Revised Standard Version
"A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a gadfly from the north has come upon her.

Young's Literal Translation
A heifer very fair `is' Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.

New English Translation
Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But northern armies will attack her like swarms of stinging flies.¹

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