Jeremiah 46:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts and are without number.

Jeremiah 46:23 Cross References

Isaiah 10:18

And he shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

Jeremiah 21:14

And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

Jeremiah 46:22

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.

Ezekiel 20:46

Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;

Joel 2:25

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Judges 6:5

For they came up with their cattle and their tents, they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

Judges 7:12

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea shore for multitude.