A serpent — Egypt is now like an heifer that makes a great bellowing, but the time shall come when she shall make a lesser noise like the hissing of a serpent. With axes — For the Chaldeans shall come with an army, armed with battle — axes, as if they came to fell wood in a forest.
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Jeremiah 46:20
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.