Jeremiah 46:22 - Revised Standard Version

²² “She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force, and come against her with axes, like those who fell trees.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² The sound [of Egypt fleeing from the enemy] is like the rustling of an escaping serpent, for her foes advance with a mighty army and come against her with axes, like those who fell trees and cut wood.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Common English Bible

²² Like the sound of a snake hissing as it slithers away is Egypt as armies approach in force; they come against her with axes, like woodcutters.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Her voice will sound out like brass. For they will rush forward with an army, and with axes they will come against her, like those who chop wood.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Her voice shall sound like brass: for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.

Jeremiah 46:22 Cross References

Psalm 74:5

At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

Isaiah 14:8

The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no hewer comes up against us.’

Isaiah 29:4

Then deep from the earth you shall speak, from low in the dust your words shall come; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 37:24

By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I came to its remotest height, its densest forest.

Jeremiah 46:21

Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fatted calves; yea, they have turned and fled together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 46:23

They shall cut down her forest, says the Lord, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!

Joshua 9:21

And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the leaders had said of them.