Jeremiah 46:21-23

Expanded Bible

²¹ ·The hired soldiers in Egypt’s army [^LIts mercenaries]
    are like fat calves,
because even they all turn and ·run away [flee] together;
    they do not stand [^Cstrong against the attack].
Their ·time of destruction [^Lday of their devastation/calamity] is coming;
    ·they will soon be punished [^Lthe time of their punishment].
²² Egypt is like a hissing snake that is trying to escape.
    The ·enemy [^Larmy] comes closer and closer.
They come against it [^CEgypt] with axes
    like men who cut down trees.
²³ They will ·chop [cut] down her forest [^CEgypt’s army]
    ·as if it were a great forest [or for they cannot be numbered; ^Ccould refer either to the Babylonians or the Egyptians],” says the Lord.
“There are more [^Cenemy soldiers] than locusts;
    there are too many to count.