Jeremiah 46:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

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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.

Jeremiah 46:22 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 74:5

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

Isaiah 10:15

Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

Isaiah 14:8

Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Levanon, saying, *Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.*

Isaiah 29:4

You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 37:24

By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, *With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Levanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

Jeremiah 46:21

Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.

Jeremiah 46:23

They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

Micah 7:16

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

Joshua 9:21

The princes said to them, Let them live: so they became wood cutters and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.