American Standard Version
"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. "
— Jeremiah 46:22, American Standard 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.”
“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.”
“Egypt will run away, hissing like a snake, as the enemy comes marching up in force. They will come against her with axes as if they were woodsmen chopping down trees.”
“Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.”
“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.”
“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.”
O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
Also 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.
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.
They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him: