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.


In Context

19 Pack your belongings for exile, you who live in Egypt, for Memphis will be laid waste and lie in ruins without inhabitant.

20 "Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly is coming against her from the north.

21 The mercenaries in her ranks are like fattened calves. They too will turn and flee together, they will not stand their ground, for the day of disaster is coming upon them, the time for them to be punished.

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.

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

24 The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame, handed over to 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 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.