Jeremiah 46:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.”
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“Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Its voice as a serpent goeth on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 46:22 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 10:15Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
- Isaiah 10:33Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
- Isaiah 14:8Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
- Isaiah 29:4You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.
- Isaiah 37:24Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.
- Jeremiah 51:20“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
- Micah 1:8Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
- Micah 7:16Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
- Zechariah 11:2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen;the majestic trees are ruined!Wail, O oaks of Bashan,for the dense forest has been cut down!
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