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

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11 Ephraim was a trained calf
    that (A)loved to thresh,
    and I spared her fair neck;
but I will put (B)Ephraim to the yoke;
    (C)Judah must plow;
    Jacob must harrow for himself.

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“Thus says the Lord:
(A)Behold, waters are rising (B)out of the north,
    (C)and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow (D)the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
Men shall cry out,
    and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.

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“The swift cannot flee away,
    nor the warrior escape;
(A)in the north by the river Euphrates
    (B)they have stumbled and fallen.

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14 Then the Lord said to me, (A)“Out of the north disaster[a] shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 1:14 The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jeremiah

11 (A)“Though you rejoice, though you exult,
    O plunderers of my heritage,
though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture,
    and neigh like stallions,

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24 The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame;
    she shall be delivered into the hand of (A)a people from the north.”

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10 (A)That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
    (B)a day of vengeance,
    (C)to avenge himself on his foes.
(D)The sword shall devour and be sated
    and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord God of hosts holds (E)a sacrifice
    (F)in the north country (G)by the river Euphrates.

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(A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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