Jeremiah 46:22

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

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

21Also her hired men in the middle of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They didn’t stand, for the day of their calamity has come on them, the time of their visitation.

23They will cut down her forest,” says the LORD, “though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:33Behold, the Lord, GOD of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Isaiah 29:4You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Jeremiah 51:20“You are my battle axe and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.

Micah 7:16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 46:14-28

The Judgment of Egypt. ( b. c. 608.) 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together. 13 The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. 14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. 15 Why are thy… Read the whole commentary →

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