Jeremiah 46:22 Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent as the enemy advances in force; they will come against her with axes, like men who cut down trees.

Jeremiah 46:22

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New International Version (©1984)
Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent as the enemy advances in force; they will come against her with axes, like men who cut down trees.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Its sound moves along like a serpent; For they move on like an army And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Egypt will hiss like a snake as it slithers away. Its enemies will come with full force. They will attack it with axes like those who chop wood.

King James 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.

American 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.

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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.

Darby Bible 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.

English Revised 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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
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.

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.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(s) They will be scarcely able to speak for fear of the Chaldeans.

(t) Meaning Egypt.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

22. The cry of Egypt when invaded shall be like the hissing of a serpent roused by the woodcutters from its lair. No longer shall she loudly roar like a heifer, but with a low murmur of fear, as a serpent hissing.

with axes-the Scythian mode of armor. The Chaldeans shall come with such confidence as if not about to have to fight with soldiers, but merely to cut down trees offering no resistance.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

46:13-28 Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the Chaldeans shall come. Comfort and peace are spoken to the Israel of God, designed to encourage them when the judgments of God were abroad among the nations. He will be with them, and only correct them in measure; and will not punish them with everlasting destruction from his presence.

Jeremiah 46:21 "Also her mercenaries in her midst Are like fattened calves, For even they too have turned back and have fled away together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their calamity has come upon them, The time of their punishment.

Jeremiah 46:23 "They have cut down her forest," declares the LORD; "Surely it will no more be found, Even though they are now more numerous than locusts And are without number. (NASB ©1995)

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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.

voice Isa 29:4 Mic 1:8 7:16

and come Jer 51:20-23 Isa 10:15,33,34 14:8 37:24 Zec 11:2

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