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


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.

25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:

Jeremiah 46:23 in Other Translations

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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

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.