Jeremiah 46:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²² Egypt will hiss like a slithering snake, for the enemy will come with an army; with axes they will come against her like those who cut trees.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² The sound [of Egypt fleeing from the enemy] is like the rustling of an escaping serpent, for her foes advance with a mighty army and come against her with axes, like those who fell trees and cut wood.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Common English Bible

²² Like the sound of a snake hissing as it slithers away is Egypt as armies approach in force; they come against her with axes, like woodcutters.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² Her voice will sound out like brass. For they will rush forward with an army, and with axes they will come against her, like those who chop wood.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² Her voice shall sound like brass: for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.

Jeremiah 46:22 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 10:15

Does an axe exalt itself above the one who chops with it? Does a saw magnify itself above the one who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the ones who lift   it! It would be like a staff lifting the one who isn’t wood!

Isaiah 14:8

Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon rejoice over you: ‘Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter has come against us.’

Isaiah 29:4

You will be brought down; you will speak from the ground, and your words will come from low in the dust. Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper from the dust.

Isaiah 37:24

You have mocked the Lord through your servants. You have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, its choice cypress trees. I came to its distant heights, its densest forest.

Jeremiah 46:21

Even her mercenaries among her are like stall-fed calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee; they will not take their stand, for the day of their calamity is coming on them, the time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 46:23

They will cut down her forest – this is the  Lord’s declaration – though it is dense, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

Micah 1:8

Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like ostriches.

Micah 7:16

Nations will see and be ashamed of  all their power. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, cypress,  for the cedar has fallen; the glorious trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the stately forest has fallen!

Joshua 9:21

They also said, ‘Let them live.’ So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water-carriers  for the whole community, as the leaders had promised them.