The Bible › World English Bible › Jeremiah 46
Jeremiah 46:22
Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
Jeremiah 46:22 · World English Bible
← PreviousRead Jeremiah 46Next →
Jeremiah 46:22 in other translations
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.
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.
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.
Every translation above is public domain and free to share. Other versions — NIV · ESV · NKJV · NLT · NASB · CSB · AMP — are copyrighted and open on their publishers’ partner site.
In context
19 You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burned up, without inhabitant.
20 “Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.
21 Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.
22 Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
23 They will cut down her forest,” says the LORD, “though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt will be disappointed; she will be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.”
25 The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him.
Read Jeremiah 46 in the app The whole chapter