Jérémie 46:23

La Bible Ostervald

Ils coupent sa forêt, dit l'Éternel, parce qu'elle est impénétrable. Car ils sont plus nombreux que les sauterelles, on ne pourrait les compter.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Ils couperont sa for�t, dit l'Eternel, quoiqu'on n'en p�t compter [les arbres]; parce que [leur arm�e sera] en plus grand nombre que les sauterelles, et on ne saurait la compter.

Darby's French Translation
Ils couperont sa for�t, dit l'�ternel, quoiqu'elle soit inexplorable, car ils sont plus nombreux que les sauterelles, et on ne peut les compter.

Louis Segond (1910)
Ils abattent sa for�t, dit l'Eternel, Bien qu'elle soit imp�n�trable; Car ils sont plus nombreux que les sauterelles, On ne pourrait les compter.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cut: Isaiah 10:18, Ezekiel 20:46

because: Judges 6:5, Judges 7:12, Joel 2:25, Revelation 9:2-10

Reciprocal: Psalms 74:5 - General Isaiah 10:34 - cut down Jeremiah 51:14 - as with Jeremiah 51:27 - cause

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord,.... The land of Egypt, compared to a forest, for the multitude of its cities and towns, and the inhabitants of them; which should be destroyed by the Chaldeans, as a forest is cut down by hewers of wood; the metaphor is here continued. The Targum interprets this of the princes of Egypt, and the destruction of them;

though it cannot be searched; either the forest of Egypt, which was so thick of trees; that is, the land was so full of towns and cities, that they could not be searched and numbered; and though the way through it seemed impassable, yet was made passable by the hewers of wood: or its destruction would be so general, "that it cannot be searched" o; or found out, where this forest was, where those trees grew, not one of them standing: or else this is to be understood of the Chaldean army, which was so great, that it could not be numbered:

because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable; which creatures come in large numbers, and eat up every green tree and herb; and so the Chaldean army, being alike numerous, would easily cut down the trees of this forest, though they were so many.

o כי לא יחקר "ut non investigetur", Calvin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:23. They shall cut down her forest — Supposed to mean her cities, of which Egypt had no fewer than one thousand and twenty.