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.


In Context

19 You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

20 Egypt is a very beautiful 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 didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.

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

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

24 The daughter of Egypt shall be disappointed; she shall be 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 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 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.