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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.”

Verse in context — Jeremiah 46

20

Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

21

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.

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.

23

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

24

The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

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