22Her voice shall go like a serpent's; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.


In Context

19 Thou, inhabitress, daughter of Egypt, furnish for thyself a captive's baggage, for Noph shall be a desolation and shall be ruined, so that none shall dwell therein.

20 Egypt is a very fair heifer; the gad-fly cometh, it cometh from the north.

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

22 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.

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

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

Jeremiah 46:22 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

46:22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

46:22Egypt 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

46:22Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

46:22The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

46:22The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

46:22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

46:22The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

46:22Its 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

46:22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.