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.


In Context

19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

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 Other Translations

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

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.