Jeremiah 46:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.”
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“They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“They have cut down her forest, An affirmation of Jehovah--for it is not searched, For they have been more than the grasshopper, And they have no numbering.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 46:23 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 6:5For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
- Judges 7:12Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
- Isaiah 10:18The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
- Ezekiel 20:46“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
- Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust— My great army that I sent against you.
- Revelation 9:2The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
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