Jeremiah 46:20

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Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a stinging gadfly from the north is coming against her.

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  • Jer 47:2 : 2 This is what the LORD says: 'Look, waters are rising from the north and will become an overflowing torrent. They will flood the land and everything in it, including the towns and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and everyone living in the land will wail.'
  • Hos 10:11 : 11 Ephraim was a trained heifer that loved to thresh, but I will put a yoke on her fair neck. I will drive Ephraim; Judah must plow, and Jacob must break up the ground.
  • Jer 1:14 : 14 Then the LORD said to me, 'From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.'
  • Jer 46:6 : 6 The swift cannot flee, nor can the strong escape. In the north, by the river Euphrates, they stumble and fall.
  • Jer 46:10 : 10 For that day belongs to the Lord, the Lord of Hosts— a day of vengeance to avenge his foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, till it is drunk with their blood. For the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.
  • Jer 46:24 : 24 The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be handed over to people from the north.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 I am about to send for all the clans of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them, making them an object of horror, scorn, and perpetual ruins.
  • Jer 50:11 : 11 'Because you rejoice and celebrate, you who plunder my inheritance; because you frolic like a threshing heifer and neigh like stallions,'

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    19Prepare your belongings for exile, you who live in Egypt, for Memphis will become a desolation, a ruin without inhabitants.

  • Jer 46:21
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    21Even her mercenaries in her midst are like fattened calves; they too will turn and flee together. They cannot stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

  • Jer 46:7-9
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    7Who is this that rises like the Nile, like rivers that surge and toss about?

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  • Jer 46:24
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    24The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be handed over to people from the north.

  • Isa 19:1-2
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    1An oracle concerning Egypt: Look, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them.

    2I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, each against his brother, each against his neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

  • Jer 46:12-14
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    12The nations have heard of your shame; the earth is filled with your cry. One warrior stumbles over another; both fall together.

    13This is the word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, coming to strike the land of Egypt.

    14Announce it in Egypt, proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it also in Memphis and Tahpanhes: 'Take your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword has devoured those around you.'

  • Ezek 30:4
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    4A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will be in Cush when the slain fall in Egypt. Her wealth will be carried away, and her foundations will be demolished.

  • Ezek 30:10-11
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    10This is what the Lord God says: 'I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.'

    11He and his army, the ruthless of the nations, will be brought to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

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    9The land of Egypt will become a desolate waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because he said, 'The Nile is mine; I made it,'

    10therefore, I am against you and your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a waste from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

    11No foot of man or beast will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

    12I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolate lands, and her cities will be among ruined cities—a desolation for forty years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the lands.

  • Ezek 30:18-19
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    18The day will be darkened in Tahpanhes when I break the yokes of Egypt there. Her proud strength will cease, and a cloud will cover her, while her villages go into captivity.

    19I will execute judgments on Egypt, and they will know that I am the Lord.

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    3For a nation has come against her from the north; it will make her land desolate. No one will live there—neither man nor beast—all will flee and be gone.

  • Jer 43:11-12
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    11He will come and attack the land of Egypt. Those destined for death will go to death, those destined for captivity to captivity, and those destined for the sword to the sword.

    12I will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. He will wrap himself in the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there in peace.

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    12By the swords of mighty warriors, the most ruthless of all nations, I will bring down your horde. They will ravage the pride of Egypt, and all its hordes will be destroyed.

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    16I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium will writhe in agony, Thebes will be breached, and Memphis will face daily distress.

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    15When I make the land of Egypt desolate and lay waste everything in it, striking down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.

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