Jeremiah 46:22

Bible in Basic English 1965

She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.

Cross References

Psalm 74:5

They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

Isaiah 10:15

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

Isaiah 14:8

Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

Isaiah 29:4

And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.

Isaiah 37:24

You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.

Jeremiah 46:21

And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 46:23

They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.

Micah 1:8

For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.

Micah 7:16

The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.

Zechariah 11:2

Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.

Joshua 9:21

Keep them living, and let them be servants, cutting wood and getting water for all the people. And all the people did as the chiefs had said to them.