JER 46:20 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT Egypt is a very beautiful young cow, but a stinging insect is coming from the north. It is coming.

UST Egypt is like a beautiful young cow,
⇔ but a powerful king from the northeast is surely coming to attack it
⇔ like a horsefly bites a cow.

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

OEB ⇔ A graceful heifer is Egypt,
⇔ But a wasp from the north hath assailed her.

WEBBE ⇔ “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer;
⇔ but destruction out of the north has come.
⇔ It has come.

WMBB (Same as above)

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

LSV Egypt [is] a very beautiful heifer,
Destruction comes into her from the north.

FBV Egypt is a beautiful young cow, but a stinging insect from the north is coming to attack her.

T4T ⇔ Egypt is like [SIM] a beautiful young cow,
⇔ but the army of a powerful king from the northeast will come to attack it
⇔ like a horsefly [MET] bites a cow.

LEB • is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north will come against her.

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

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JPS Egypt is a very fair heifer; but the gadfly out of the north is come, it is come.

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

DRA Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.

YLT A heifer very fair [is] Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.

Drby Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.

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

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

KJB-1769 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/comes; it cometh/comes out of the north. )

KJB-1611 Egypt is like a very faire heifer, but destruction commeth: it commeth out of the North.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps The lande of Egypt is lyke a goodly faire calfe: but destruction shall come out of the north I say it commeth.
(The land of Egypt is like a goodly fair calfe: but destruction shall come out of the north I say it cometh/comes.)

Gnva Egypt is like a faire calfe, but destruction commeth: out of the North it commeth.
(Egypt is like a fair calfe, but destruction cometh/comes: out of the North it cometh/comes. )

Cvdl The londe of Egipte is like a goodly fayre calfe, but one shall come out of the north to dryue her forwarde.
(The land of Egypt is like a goodly fair calfe, but one shall come out of the north to drive her forwarde.)

Wycl Egipt is a schapli cow calf, and fair; a prickere fro the north schal come to it.
(Egypt is a schapli cow calf, and fair; a prickere from the north shall come to it.)

Luth Ägypten ist ein sehr schönes Kalb; aber es kommt von Mitternacht der Schlächter.
(Egypt is a very schönes Kalb; but it comes from Mitternacht the/of_the Schlächter.)

ClVg Vitula elegans atque formosa Ægyptus, stimulator ab aquilone veniet ei.[fn]
(Vitula elegans atque formosa Ægyptus, stimulator away aquilone veniet to_him. )

46.20 Vitula. Quia Ægyptia plebs in deliciis nutrita, indomita, lasciva, jugum disciplinæ recusavit.

46.20 Vitula. Because Ægyptia plebs in deliciis nutrita, indomita, lasciva, yugum disciplinæ recusavit.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) Egypt is a very beautiful young cow

(Some words not found in UHB: heifer יְפֵה פִיָּה Miʦrayim/(Egypt) gadfly from,north he/it_came he_comes )

The nation of Egypt, which was very strong and prosperous, is spoken of as if it were a beautiful young cow. Alternate translation: “Egypt is like a very beautiful heifer”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) but a stinging insect

(Some words not found in UHB: heifer יְפֵה פִיָּה Miʦrayim/(Egypt) gadfly from,north he/it_came he_comes )

The enemy army coming to attack the Egyptians is spoken of as if the army were an insect that stings. Alternate translation: “but a powerful army like a stinging insect”

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