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Jeremiah 46:22

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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.

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  1. Jeremiah 46:20

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

  2. Jeremiah 46:21

    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.

  3. Jeremiah 46:23

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

  4. Jeremiah 46:24

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

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.