"Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly is coming against her from the north."
NIV
Egypt is a very fair heifer [like Apis the bull-god, to which the country is, so to speak, espoused], but destruction [a gadfly] is coming--out of the north it is coming [against her]!
AMP
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
KJV
They will chop down her forest," declares the LORD, "dense though it be. They are more numerous than locusts, they cannot be counted.
NIV
They shall cut down her forest, says the Lord, though it is impenetrable, because they [the invading army] are more numerous than locusts and cannot be counted.
AMP
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
KJV
Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers of surging waters. She says, 'I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy cities and their people.'
NIV
Egypt rises like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters surge and toss. She says, I will rise, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.
AMP
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
KJV
There they will exclaim, "Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise; he has missed his opportunity.'"
NIV
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is destroyed and is only a noise; he has let the appointed time [in which God had him on probation] pass by!
AMP
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
KJV
"The nations will hear of your shame; your cries will fill the earth. One warrior will stumble over another; both will fall down together."
NIV
The nations have heard of your disgrace and shame, and your cry has filled the earth. For warrior has stumbled against and thrown down warrior, and they have fallen both of them together.
AMP
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
KJV
