Jeremiah 46:23
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
They shall cut down her forest, said the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
American King James Version (AKJV)
They shall cut down her forest, said the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
American Standard Version (ASV)
They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.
Webster's Revision
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
World English Bible
They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
English Revised Version (ERV)
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
Clarke's Jeremiah 46:23 Bible Commentary
They shall cut down her forest - Supposed to mean her cities, of which Egypt had no fewer than one thousand and twenty.
Barnes's Jeremiah 46:23 Bible Commentary
Or, "They have cut down her forest, saith Yahweh, for it is impenetrable," i. e., just as a pathless forest must be cleared to assist agriculture and the passage to and fro of men, so must the false worship and the material prosperity of Egypt be overthrown.
Grasshoppers - The invading host advances as multitudinous as the locusts which consume the whole vegetation of the land on which they alight.
Wesley's Jeremiah 46:23 Bible Commentary
46:23 Tho' - Tho' it seem impenetrable.