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


In Context

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.

25 Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and those who trust in him:

Jeremiah 46:23 in Other Translations

The King James 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 grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.

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 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.