Jeremiah 46:22

The Passion Translation

Egypt hisses like a snake crawling away, as her enemies advance in force and attack her with axes like woodsmen chopping down trees.

Cross References

Psalm 74:5

Now everything is in shambles! They’ve totally destroyed it. Like a forest chopped down to the ground, there’s nothing left.

Isaiah 10:15

Is the axe greater than the one who wields it? Is the saw greater than the one who cuts with it? Can the axe strike without a hand to move it? Can a lifeless wooden cane walk all by itself?

Isaiah 14:8

even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon join in, rejoicing over your demise, saying, ‘Now that you were laid low, no woodsman comes to cut us down.’ ”

Isaiah 29:4

Brought low, you will speak from the dust of the earth. Your voice will be heard speaking from the ground, and like the voice of a ghost, you will whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 37:24

You sent your messengers to mock the Lord. You boast, “My vast number of chariots has taken me up the highest mountains, to the heights of Lebanon’s forests. I cut down its loftiest cedars, its choicest cypresses. I ascended its highest peak and claimed its great forests.

Jeremiah 46:21

The mercenaries she had with her were like pampered, fattened calves, but they, too, turned and ran away; they failed to stand and fight. For the day has come when Yahweh will bring disaster and punishment to them.

Jeremiah 46:23

They shall cut down her impenetrable forest,” declares Yahweh, “because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.