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."
— Jeremiah 46:22, King James 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. ”
“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 dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
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.
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him: