Jeremiah 46:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

Common English Bible

²³ They destroy her dense forest, though it is vast, because they outnumber locusts and can’t be counted, declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ They have cut down her forest, says the Lord, which was not able to be counted. They have been multiplied more than locusts, and they are without number.

Jeremiah 46:23 Cross References

Judges 7:12

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley as thick as locusts, and their camels were without number, countless as the sand on the seashore.

Judges 6:5

For they and their livestock would come up, and they would even bring their tents, as thick as locusts; neither they nor their camels could be counted, so they wasted the land as they came in.

Joel 2:25

I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army that I sent against you.

Ezekiel 20:46

Mortal, set your face toward the south, preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb;

Isaiah 10:18

The glory of his forest and his fruitful land the Lord will destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when an invalid wastes away.

Jeremiah 21:14

I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord; I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all that is around it.

Jeremiah 46:22

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