Jeremiah 46:22 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Her voice will sound out like brass. For they will rush forward with an army, and with axes they will come against her, like those who chop wood.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
Its sound will go like the serpent, for they will march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
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.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
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 Berean Standard Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
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.
LSV Literal Standard Version
Its voice goes on as a serpent, || For they go with a force, || And they have come in to her with axes, || As hewers of trees.
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Darby Darby Translation
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.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
The voyce thereof shall goe foorth like a serpent: for they shall march with an armie, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Egypt hisses like a snake and crawls away, for her enemies are marching against her. They are going toward her like woodcutters with axes.
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Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
The sound thereof shall go like the serpent's; for they march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
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.
FBV Free Bible Version
The Egyptians will retreat with a rustle like a snake sliding away, because the enemy will attack them with axes, coming at them like wood-cutters chopping down trees.
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Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
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.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Su voz saldrá como de serpiente; porque con ejército vendrán, y con hachas vienen á ella como cortadores de leña.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Silencioso como serpiente que se desliza, huye Egipto. Entra el ejército invasor. Los innumerables soldados tronchan a su pueblo como si fueran leñadores que abren un claro en el bosque.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Óiganlos silbando como una serpiente, mientras ellos avanzan con fuerza para caer sobre ella con sus hachas como leñadores.
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Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Los egipcios retrocederán con un crujido como el de una serpiente que se desliza, porque el enemigo los atacará con hachas, acercándose a ellos como cortadores de madera que cortan árboles.
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BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Ella hace un sonido como el silbido de una serpiente cuando ellos avanzan con fuerza. Van contra ella con hachas, como leñadores.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
קוֹלָ֖הּ כַּנָּחָ֣שׁ יֵלֵ֑ךְ כִּֽי־בְחַ֣יִל יֵלֵ֔כוּ וּבְקַרְדֻּמּוֹת֙ בָּ֣אוּ לָ֔הּ כְּחֹטְבֵ֖י עֵצִֽים׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Vox ejus quasi æris sonabit: quoniam cum exercitu properabunt, et cum securibus venient ei quasi cædentes ligna.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Гла́съ и҆́хъ, ꙗ҆́коже ѕмі́а звизда́ющагѡ, поне́же съ си́лою по́йдꙋтъ, со сѣки́рами прїи́дꙋтъ на него̀.
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Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Голос его несется, как змеиный; они идут с войском, придут на него с топорами, как дровосеки;
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Η φωνή αυτής θέλει εξέλθει ως όφεως· διότι θέλουσι κινηθή εν δυνάμει και θέλουσιν επέλθει επ' αυτήν με πελέκεις, ως ξυλοκόποι.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Глас ће њихов ићи као глас змијињи, јер они иду с војском и доћи ће са секирама на њ као они који секу дрва.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Glas će njihov ići kao glas zmijinji, jer oni idu s vojskom i doći će sa sekirama na nj kao oni koji seku drva.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
صَوْتُهَا يَمْشِي كَحَيَّةٍ، لِأَنَّهُمْ يَسِيرُونَ بِجَيْشٍ، وَقَدْ جَاءُوا إِلَيْهَا بِٱلْفُؤُوسِ كَمُحْتَطِبِي حَطَبٍ.
Not in these translations (11)
Brenton, LXXUP, Tyndale, Scío, LXX, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT