Jeremiah 46:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it cannot be comprehended; because they are more numerous than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They will cut down her forest, declares the Lord, though it is dense. They are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

  • King James Version 1769 (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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    They shall cut down{H3772} her forest,{H3293} saith{H5002} Jehovah,{H3068} though it cannot be searched;{H2713} because they are more{H7231} than the locusts,{H697} and are innumerable.{H369}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    They shall cut down{H3772}{(H8804)} her forest{H3293}, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068}, though it cannot be searched{H2713}{(H8735)}; because they are more{H7231}{(H8804)} than the grasshoppers{H697}, and are innumerable{H369}{H4557}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And they shall cut downe hir wod (saieth the LORDE) with out eny discrecion. For they shal be mo in nobre then the greshoppers, so that no man shalbe able to tell the.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    They shall cut downe her forest, saith the Lord: for they cannot be counted, because they are moe then ye grashoppers, & are innumerable.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And they shall cut downe her wood saith the Lorde, they shalbe innumerable: for they shalbe mo in number then the grashoppers, so that no man shalbe able to tell them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    They have cut down her forest, An affirmation of Jehovah -- for it is not searched, For they have been more than the grasshopper, And they have no numbering.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 7:12 : 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay in the valley as numerous as locusts, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore for multitude.
  • Judg 6:5 : 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts in multitude; for both they and their camels were without number, and they entered into the land to destroy it.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Rev 9:2-9 : 2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose from the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 3 And out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and to them was given power, like the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was commanded them that they should not harm the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 And in those days men will seek death and will not find it, and will desire to die, and death will flee from them. 7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. 8 They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running to battle. 10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to harm men for five months.
  • Isa 10:18 : 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.
  • Ezek 20:46 : 46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and speak toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 46:21-22
    2 verses
    85%

    21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, and have fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity has 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.

  • Nah 3:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15 There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

    16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven: the locust spoils, and flies away.

    17 Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

  • Jer 51:14
    74%

    14 The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts; and they shall lift up a shout against you.

  • Deut 28:42
    74%

    42 All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.

  • Jer 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

    7 And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Judg 6:5
    74%

    5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts in multitude; for both they and their camels were without number, and they entered into the land to destroy it.

  • Amos 7:1
    74%

    1 Thus the Lord GOD showed to me; and, behold, he formed locusts at the beginning of the late growth; and, lo, it was the late growth after the king's mowings.

  • Nah 1:12
    73%

    12 Thus says the LORD: Though they be at peace and likewise many, yet they shall be cut down when he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

  • Jer 5:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

    17 And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • Ps 105:34
    72%

    34 He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,

  • Isa 7:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall call for the fly that is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

    19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
    72%

    26 Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blighted before it is grown up.

  • Isa 33:4
    72%

    4 Your spoil will be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar; as locusts run to and fro, he will run upon them.

  • Isa 10:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.

    19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

  • Isa 37:27
    72%

    27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blighted before it is grown up.

  • Ps 78:46
    72%

    46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labor unto the locust.

  • Deut 28:38
    71%

    38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

  • Joel 2:3
    71%

    3 A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.

  • Ezek 39:10
    71%

    10 They shall not take wood out of the field, nor cut down any from the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall take spoil from those who spoiled them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord GOD.

  • Exod 10:5
    71%

    5 And they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one will not be able to see the earth; and they shall eat the rest of what is left to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree that grows for you out of the field:

  • Jer 21:14
    71%

    14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, says the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.

  • Jer 46:24
    71%

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

  • Hos 2:12
    71%

    12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.

  • Prov 30:27
    71%

    27 The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them in ranks;

  • Isa 10:34
    71%

    34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by the Mighty One.

  • Exod 10:14
    70%

    14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the territory of Egypt; they were very grievous; before them there were no locusts like them, nor after them shall be such.

  • Jer 50:3
    70%

    3 For out of the north a nation comes against her, which shall make her land desolate, and no one shall dwell therein: they shall move away, they shall depart, both man and beast.

  • Jer 25:37
    70%

    37 And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Joel 1:4
    70%

    4 What the palmerworm has left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust has left, the cankerworm has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

  • Jer 6:6
    70%

    6 For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Cut down trees, and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited; she is full of oppression in her midst.

  • Joel 2:25
    70%

    25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

  • Jer 8:13
    70%

    13 I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall wither; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

  • Jer 50:26
    70%

    26 Come against her from the furthest border, open her storehouses: pile her up as heaps, and utterly destroy her: let nothing of her be left.

  • Joel 1:6
    70%

    6 For a nation has come up against my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.

  • Ps 80:13
    70%

    13 The boar out of the woods destroys it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it.

  • Jer 9:10
    70%

    10 For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

  • Nah 2:13
    70%

    13 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Judg 7:12
    70%

    12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay in the valley as numerous as locusts, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore for multitude.

  • Hos 9:6
    69%

    6 For behold, they are gone because of destruction; Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; nettles shall possess their precious silver places; thorns shall be in their tents.

  • Isa 29:5
    69%

    5 Moreover, the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away; yes, it shall be at an instant, suddenly.

  • Jer 6:23
    69%

    23 They shall hold the bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • Hos 11:6
    69%

    6 And the sword shall remain on his cities, and shall destroy his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

  • Isa 56:9
    69%

    9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.

Created by Digify•Powered by SQLExpert
© 2025 Bibelvers. All rights reserved.