Jeremías 46:20
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Context
This verse from Jeremías Chapter 46 connects to 8 cross-references. Oráculo contra Egipto: la derrota en Carquemis en el 605 a.C. se describe como la caída del ejército del faraón Necao. Nabucodonosor viene como las aguas del Nilo para cubrir la tierra.
Otras traducciones
Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
A heifer very fair <FI>is<Fi> Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.
Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
Referencias cruzadas
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Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by …
For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him …
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall …
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the …
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over …