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Jeremiah 46:22

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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.

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Jeremiah 46:22 in other translations

Its sound will go like the serpent;
for they will march with an army,
and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

Jeremiah 46:22 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 46:22 in context

  1. 20Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
  2. 21Also 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 did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
  3. 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.
  4. 23They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
  5. 24The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.