20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
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Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-28)In these verses we have, I. Confusion and terror spoken to Egypt. The accomplishment of the prediction in the former part of the chapter disabled the Egyptians from making any attempts upon other nations; for what could they do when their army was routed? But still they remained strong at home, and none of their neighbours durst make any attempts upon them. Though the kings of Egypt came no more o…
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