Jeremiah 46:22 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. 更多版本Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) 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 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 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 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. English Standard Version 2016 “She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force and come against her with axes like those who fell trees. |
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.