23They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.


In Context

20 Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

22 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.

23 They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

24 The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

25 Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him:

Jeremiah 46:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

46:23They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

46:23They will chop down her forest," declares the Lord , "dense though it be. They are more numerous than locusts, they cannot be counted.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

46:23They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

46:23They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it be impenetrable; for they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

46:23They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

46:23They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

46:23They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

46:23They have cut down her forest, An affirmation of Jehovah — for it is not searched, For they have been more than the grasshopper, And they have no numbering.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

46:23They shall cut down her forest, said the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.