Jeremiah 46:22
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 other versions
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.
ASV
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.
BBE
Her voice shall go like a serpent's; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
DBY
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.
WEB
Its voice as a serpent goeth on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees.
YLT
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.
ENG
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.
WBT
Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.
BSB
In context
20Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
21Also 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.
22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
23They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
24The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.