Jeremiah 46:23

They have cut down her forest Declareth Yahweh, Surely he cannot be searched out,—For they have outnumbered locusts, and cannot be counted.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

In Context

22Her noise, like a serpent, departeth,—For, with a force, they advance, And with axes, have they come against her, like them who fell trees:

24Put to shame is the daughter of Egypt,—She hath been delivered into the hand of the people of the North.

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Cross References

Judges 6:5for, they with their cattle, used to come up, with their tents—yea they used to come like locusts, for multitude, both they and their cattle, were without number,—so they came into the land, to lay it waste.

Isaiah 10:18And the glory of his forest and of his garden land, both soul and body, shall it bring to an end,—And it shall be like the wasting away of a consumptive.

Joel 2:25Then will I make good to you the years which were eaten by the swarming locust, the grass locust, and the corn locust and the creeping locust,—even my great army, which I sent among you.

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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