Verse 20
20. heifer—wanton, like a fat, untamed heifer (Hosea 10:11). Appropriate to Egypt, where Apis was worshipped under the form of a fair bull marked with spots.
destruction—that is, a destroyer: Nebuchadnezzar. Vulgate translates, "a goader," answering to the metaphor, "one who will goad the heifer" and tame her. The Arabic idiom favors this [ROSENMULLER].
cometh . . . cometh—The repetition implies, it cometh surely and quickly (Hosea 10:11- :).
out of the north—(See on Jeremiah 1:14; Jeremiah 1:14- :).
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