American Standard Version
"They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable. "
— Jeremiah 46:23, American Standard 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.”
“They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.”
“The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest. But I, the LORD, affirm that the enemy will cut them down. For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts. They will be too numerous to count.”
“They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.”
“They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.”
“They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.”
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:
and I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.