Verse 20

Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Egypt er en vakker kalv, men ødeleggelsen kommer fra nord.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Egypt ligner en meget vakker kvige, men en destruktør kommer fra nord.

• Norsk King James

  Egypt er som en vakker kvige, men ødeleggelsen kommer; den kommer fra nord.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Egypt er en vakker kvige, men en slakter kommer fra nord.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  En vakker kvige er Egypt, men en skremmelse fra nord nærmer seg.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Egypt er som en meget vakker kvige, men ødeleggelsen kommer; den kommer fra nord.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Egypt er som en meget skjønn kalv, men ødeleggelsen kommer; den kommer fra nord.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Egypt er som en meget vakker kvige, men ødeleggelsen kommer; den kommer fra nord.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Egypt er en vakker kvige, men en klegg fra nord kommer, kommer det.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Egypt er en vakker kvige, men et stikk kommer fra nord, det kommer virkelig.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Ægypten er en meget deilig Kalv; Slagteren kommer, han kommer af Norden.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Egypt er som en vakker kvige, men ødeleggelse kommer; den kommer fra nord.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Egypt er en meget vakker kvige; men ødeleggelse fra nord er kommet, den er kommet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Egypt er som en vakker kvige, men fra nord kommer ødeleggende krefter.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Egypt er en meget vakker kvige; men ødeleggelse fra nord kommer, det har kommet.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Egypt er en vakker ung ku; men en bitende insekt har kommet over henne fra nord.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  The londe of Egipte is like a goodly fayre calfe, but one shall come out of the north to dryue her forwarde.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Egypt is like a faire calfe, but destruction commeth: out of the North it commeth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  The lande of Egypt is lyke a goodly faire calfe: but destruction shall come out of the north I say it commeth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

• Jer 47:2 : 2 Thus says 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 in it; the city, and those who dwell in it: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
• Hos 10:11 : 11 And Ephraim is like a trained heifer that loves to thresh grain; but I put a yoke on her fair neck: I will make Ephraim ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
• Jer 1:14 : 14 Then the LORD said to me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
• Jer 46:6 : 6 Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
• Jer 46:10 : 10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself on his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiated and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
• Jer 46:24 : 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
• Jer 25:9 : 9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
• Jer 50:11 : 11 Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of my heritage, because you have grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow like bulls;