Jeremiah 46:23
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They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.

Judges 6:5
For they and all their flocks came with their tents, and like locusts filled all places, an innumerable multitude of men, and of camels, wasting whatsoever they touched.

Judges 7:12
But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.

Jeremiah 21:14
But I will visit upon you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof: and it shall devour all things round about it.

Jeremiah 46:22
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.

Joel 2:25
And I will restore to you the years which the locust, and the bruchus, and the mildew, and the palmerworm hath eaten; my great host which I sent upon you.

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They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.

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Isaiah 10:18 And the glory of his forest, and of his beautiful hill, shall be consumed from the soul even to the flesh, and he shall run away through fear.

Ezekiel 20:46 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field.

because

Judges 6:5 For they and all their flocks came with their tents, and like locusts filled all places, an innumerable multitude of men, and of camels, wasting whatsoever they touched.

Judges 7:12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.

Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years which the locust, and the bruchus, and the mildew, and the palmerworm hath eaten; my great host which I sent upon you.

Revelation 9:2-10 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit. . . .

Context
The Judgment on Egypt
22Her voice shall sound like brass, for they shall hasten with an army, and with axes they shall come against her, as hewers of wood. 23They have cut down her forest, saith the Lord, which cannot be counted: they are multiplied above locusts, and are without number.24The daughter of Egypt is confounded, and delivered into the hand of the people of the north.…
Lexicon
They will chop down
כָּרְת֤וּ (kā·rə·ṯū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

her forest,
יַעְרָהּ֙ (ya‘·rāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3293: A copse of bushes, a forest, honey in the comb

declares
נְאֻם־ (nə·’um-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5002: An oracle

the LORD,
יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

dense
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

though
כִּ֖י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

it may be,
יֵֽחָקֵ֑ר (yê·ḥā·qêr)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2713: To penetrate, to examine intimately

for
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

they are more numerous
רַבּוּ֙ (rab·bū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7231: To cast together, increase, in number, to multiply by the myriad

than locusts;
מֵֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה (mê·’ar·beh)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 697: (a kind of) locust

they cannot
וְאֵ֥ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

be counted.
מִסְפָּֽר׃ (mis·pār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration


Additional Translations
They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.They shall cut down her forest, said the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for their number cannot at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.

They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it be impenetrable; for they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it can't be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

They have cut down her forest, An affirmation of Jehovah -- for it is not searched, For they have been more than the grasshopper, And they have no numbering.
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