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.


In Context

20 A heifer very fair is Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.

21 Even her hired ones in her midst are as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity hath come on them, The time of their inspection.

22 Its 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.

23 They 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.

24 Ashamed hath been the daughter of Egypt, She hath been given into the hand of the people of the north.

25 Said hath Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am seeing after Amon of No, And after Pharaoh, and after Egypt, And after her gods, and after her kings, And after Pharaoh, and after those trusting 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 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 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.