20 “A beautiful qheifer is Egypt,
but a biting fly rfrom the north has come upon her.
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Hosea 10:11
Ephraim was a trained calf
that loved to thresh,
and I spared her fair neck;
but I will put Ephraim to the yoke;
Judah must plow;
Jacob must harrow for himself.
Jeremiah 46:6
“The swift cannot flee away,
nor the warrior escape;
in the north by the river Euphrates
they have stumbled and fallen.
Jeremiah 46:10
That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts,
a day of vengeance,
to avenge himself on his foes.
The sword shall devour and be sated
and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice
in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 46:24
The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame;
she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north.”
Jeremiah 1:13
The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north.”
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