²² Its sound goes along like a serpent,
    for they march on as an army,
and come against her with axes,
    as choppers of wood.
²³ They have cut down her forest,
    says the Lord.
    Surely it will not be found any more,
even though they are now more numerous than the grasshoppers,
    and are innumerable.
²⁴ The daughter of Egypt has been humiliated;
    she has been delivered into the hand of the people of the north.