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Jeremiah 46:20

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

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  1. Jeremiah 46:18

    As 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.

  2. Jeremiah 46:19

    O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

  3. Jeremiah 46:21

    Also 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.

  4. Jeremiah 46:22

    The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.