Jeremiah 46:22
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
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.
In context
20 Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.
21 Even 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.
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.
23 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.
24 The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”
Jeremiah 46:22 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- KJV 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.
- WEB 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.
- ASV 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.
- YLT 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.
- DBY 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.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.