| Jeremiah 46:22 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Its sound moves along like a serpent; For they move on like an army And come to her as woodcutters with axes. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Egypt will hiss like a snake as it slithers away. Its enemies will come with full force. They will attack it with axes like those who chop wood.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | 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. |
| ASV: | The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. |
| BBE: | She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters. |
| DBY: | Her voice shall go like a serpent's; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. |
| ERV: | The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. |
| JPS: | The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; for they march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. |
| WBS: | 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. |
| WEB: | 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. |
| YLT: | 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. |
| Jeremiah 46:22 Cross References |
| XREF: | Jeremiah 46:21 "Also her mercenaries in her midst Are like fattened calves, For even they too have turned back and have fled away together; They did not stand their ground. For the day of their calamity has come upon them, The time of their punishment.
Jeremiah 46:23 "They have cut down her forest," declares the LORD; "Surely it will no more be found, Even though they are now more numerous than locusts And are without number. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 46:22 Its voice shall go like a {s} serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against {t} her with axes, as hewers of wood.
(s) They will be scarcely able to speak for fear of the Chaldeans.
(t) Meaning Egypt. |
| MHC: | 46:13-28 Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the Chaldeans shall come. Comfort and peace are spoken to the Israel of God, designed to encourage them when the judgments of God were abroad among the nations. He will be with them, and only correct them in measure; and will not punish them with everlasting destruction from his presence. |
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