Jeremiah 46:20 Cross References - LEB

²⁰ Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north will come against her.

¹⁴ Then Yahweh said to me, "From the north disaster will be unleashed* on all the inhabitants of the land.

⁹ look, I am going to send and take all the clans* of the north,' _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, 'and I will send* to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations all around, and I will destroy them, and I will make them a horror, and an object of hissing, and _⌊everlasting ruins_⌋.*

⁶ The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape. They have stumbled and they have fallen, by the bank of the Euphrates River.

¹⁰ For that day is to the Lord Yahweh of hosts a day of retribution, to take revenge on his foes. And the sword will devour and be satisfied, and it will drink its fill of their blood, for a sacrifice is for the Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.

²⁴ The daughter of Egypt will be ashamed, she will be given into the hand of the people of the north."

² Thus says Yahweh:
"Look, waters are rising from the north, and they will become as a raging torrent, and they will overflow the land, and that which fills it, the city and those who live in it. And the people will cry out, and every inhabitant of the land will wail,

¹¹ "Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my inheritance, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass, and you neigh like the powerful stallions,

¹¹ Ephraim was a trained heifer, that loved to thresh grain, and I myself _⌊spared_⌋* the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself.