Jeremiah 46:20
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
In other versions
Egypt is a very fair heifer; `but' destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
ASV
Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
BBE
Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.
DBY
Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
WEB
A heifer very fair `is' Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.
YLT
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.
ENG
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
WBT
Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.
BSB
In context
18As 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.
19O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21Also 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.
22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.