Jeremiah 46:23

Easy To Read Version

The Lord says these things.\par “They will chop down Egypt’s\par forest (army).\par There are many trees (soldiers)\par in that forest (army)\par but they will all be cut down.\par There are more enemy soldiers than locusts. {\cf2\super [368]} \par There are so many soldiers,\par that no person can count them.\par

Cross References

Isaiah 10:18

Then the fire grows and burns away the great trees and vineyards. {\cf2\super [120]} Finally, everything is destroyed—even the people. \{It will be like that when God destroys Assyria.\} Assyria will be like a rotting log.

Jeremiah 21:14

‘You will get the punishment you deserve.\par I will start a fire in your forests.\par That fire will completely burn everything\par around you.’”\par

Jeremiah 46:22

Egypt is like a snake hissing\par and trying to escape.\par The enemy comes closer and closer,\par and the Egyptian army is trying\par to slither away (escape).\par The enemy will attack Egypt with axes,\par like men cutting down trees.”\par

Ezekiel 20:46

“Son of man, {\cf2\super [152]} look toward the Negev, the southern part of Judah. Speak against the Negev Forest. {\cf2\super [153]}

Joel 2:25

“I, the Lord, sent my army against you.\par The swarming locusts\par and the hopping locusts\par and the destroying locusts\par and the cutting locusts {\cf2\super [20]} \par ate everything you had.\par But I, the Lord, will pay you back\par for those years \{of trouble\}.\par

Judges 6:5

The people of Midian came up and camped in the land. They brought their families and their animals with them. They were as many as swarms of locusts! There were so many of those people and their camels that it was not possible to count them. All of these people came into the land and ruined it.

Judges 7:12

The people of Midian, the people of Amalek, and all the other people from the east were camped in that valley. There were so many people that they seemed like a swarm of locusts. [69] It seemed like those people had as many camels as there are grains of sand on the seashore.