Jeremiah 46:22
King James Version (KJV)
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.
In context
20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
22 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.
23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jeremiah 46:22 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.