"Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north."
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Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.
Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
A heifer very fair `is' Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.