Jeremiah 46:22 “Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in…”

Jeremiah 46:22

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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The voyce thereof shall goe foorth like a serpent: for they shall march with an armie, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Darby Translation

Her voice shall go like a serpent's; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.

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Cross references

“voice”

Isaiah 29:4 Micah 1:8 Micah 7:16

Isaiah 29:4 · BSB

You 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.

Micah 1:8 · BSB

Because 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 7:16 · BSB

Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

“and come”

Isaiah 14:8 Jeremiah 51:20–23 Isaiah 10:15 Isaiah 37:24 Zechariah 11:2 Isaiah 10:33

Isaiah 14:8 · BSB

Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

Jeremiah 51:20–23 · BSB

“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

Isaiah 10:15 · BSB

Does 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 37:24 · BSB

Through 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 o…

Zechariah 11:2 · BSB

Wail, 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!

Isaiah 10:33 · BSB

Behold, 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them— the time of their punishment.

23They 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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