Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. Egypt is like a very fair heifer - Fruitful and useful; but destruction cometh out of the north, from Chaldea. It may be that there is an allusion here to Isis, worshipped in Egypt under the form of a beautiful cow.
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Jeremiah 46:20
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.