Egypt is a pretty heifer, But a horsefly is coming from the north— it is coming!

埃及是肥美的母牛犊；但出于北方的毁灭来到了！来到了！

埃及是肥美的母牛犊；但来自北方的牛虻来到了！来到了！

埃及是肥美的母牛犊；但来自北方的牛虻来到了！来到了！

“埃及像头肥美的母牛犊，但从北方却来了牛虻。

埃及是一头肥美的母牛犊，但北方的牛虫已经来到它身上（“它身上”有古卷作“来到了”）。

埃及是肥美的母牛犢；但出於北方的毀滅來到了！來到了！

埃及是肥美的母牛犢；但來自北方的牛虻來到了！來到了！

埃及是肥美的母牛犢；但來自北方的牛虻來到了！來到了！

「埃及像頭肥美的母牛犢，但從北方卻來了牛虻。

埃及是一頭肥美的母牛犢，但北方的牛蟲已經來到牠身上（“牠身上”有古卷作“來到了”）。

『埃及是美麗的母牛犢，但出於北方的牛蝨來到牠身上了。

埃及乃為美犢、惟有蜚蝱自北而來、今已至矣、

埃及人若美犢、有災至自北方、

惟爾伊及、猶若美犢、有災自北方而來、

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

“ Egypt is like a beautiful young cow. But Nebuchadnezzar is coming against her from the north. He will bite her like a fly.

“ A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a biting fly from the north has come upon her.

Egypt is as sleek as a beautiful heifer, but a horsefly from the north is on its way!

Egypt is a beautiful young cow, but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.

“ Egypt is a very pretty heifer, But destruction comes, it comes from the north.

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

Egypt is a beautiful young cow, but a horsefly from the north is coming against her.

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

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

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

This is what the Lord says:“ Behold, waters are going to rise from the north And become an overflowing torrent, And overflow the land and everything that is in it, The city and those who live in it; And the people will cry out, And every inhabitant of the land will wail.

Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh, And I passed over her lovely neck; I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.

For that day belongs to the Lord God of armies, A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His foes; And the sword will devour and be satisfied, And drink its fill of their blood; For there will be a slaughter for the Lord God of armies, In the land of the north at the river Euphrates.

Let not the swift man flee, Nor the warrior escape. In the north beside the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen.

Then the Lord said to me,“ Out of the north the evil will be unleashed on all the inhabitants of the land.

The daughter of Egypt has been put to shame, Turned over to the power of the people of the north.”

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord,‘ and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.

“ Because you are glad, because you are jubilant, You who pillage My heritage, Because you skip about like a threshing heifer And neigh like stallions,