Jeremiah 46:22

Modern English Version

Its sound goes along like a serpent, for they march on as an army, and come against her with axes, as choppers of wood.

Cross References

Psalm 74:5

They seem like men who wield axes in a thicket of trees.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? That is as if the rod wields itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift itself up as if it were not wood.

Isaiah 14:8

Indeed, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are laid down, no tree cutter has come up against us.”

Isaiah 29:4

You shall be brought down, and shall speak from the ground, and from the dust where you are prostrate your speech shall come; your voice shall also be as that of a ghost from the ground; and your speech shall whisper from the dust.

Isaiah 37:24

Through your servants you have reproached the Lord and have said, ‘With my many chariots I have come up to the heights of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; and I cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will go to its highest peak, its thickest forest.

Jeremiah 46:21

Also her mercenaries are in her midst like fat bulls, for they also have turned back and have fled away together. They did not stand their ground because the day of their calamity has come upon them, even the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 46:23

They have cut down her forest, says the Lord. Surely it will not be found any more, even though they are now more numerous than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

Micah 1:8

Because of this I will lament and wail, I will go about barefoot and naked; I will howl like the jackals and moan like owlets.

Micah 7:16

Nations will see and be ashamed, despite all their might; they will put their hand on their mouth, and their ears will be deaf.

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are destroyed. Wail, O oaks of Bashan, because the unassailable forest has been brought down.

Joshua 9:21

The leaders of the congregation also said to them, “Let them live!” So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation, as the leaders told them.