Jeremiah 46:22

God's Word

Egypt will hiss like a snake as it slithers away. Its enemies will come with full force. They will attack it with axes like those who chop wood.

Cross References

Psalm 74:5

Starting from its entrance, they hacked away like a woodcutter in a forest.

Isaiah 10:15

Can an ax attack the person who cuts with it? Can a saw make itself greater than the person who saws with it? A rod cannot move the person who lifts it. A wooden stick cannot pick up a person.

Isaiah 14:8

Even the cypresses rejoice over you. The cedars of Lebanon say, “Since you have fallen, no lumberjack has come to attack us.”

Isaiah 29:4

When you have fallen, you will speak as you lie on the ground. Your words will be muffled by the dust. Your voice will come out of the ground like that of a ghost. Your words will be whispered from the dust.

Isaiah 37:24

Through your servants you defy the Lord and say, “With my many chariots I’ll ride up the high mountains, up the slopes of Lebanon. I’ll cut down its tallest cedars and its finest cypresses. I’ll come to its most distant heights and its most fertile forests.

Jeremiah 46:21

Egypt’s hired soldiers are like fattened calves. They will turn and run away together. They won’t stand their ground. The day of destruction is coming. At that time they will be punished.

Jeremiah 46:23

They will cut down the forest,” declares the Lord, “since Egypt can’t be found. They are more numerous than locusts; they can’t be counted.

Micah 1:8

I will mourn and cry because of this. I will walk around barefoot and naked. I will cry like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

Micah 7:16

Nations will see this and be ashamed in spite of all their strength. They will put their hands over their mouths. Their ears will become deaf.

Zechariah 11:2

Cry, cypress trees, because the cedars have fallen and the stately trees have been destroyed. Cry, oak trees of Bashan, because your dense forest has fallen down.

Joshua 9:21

The leaders said that they should be allowed to live. So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation, as the leaders had said.