Psalms 74:5
They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.
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- 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 Now therefore command thou that they cut me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and I will give thee hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt say: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that knoweth how to cut timber like unto the Sidonians.
- 2 Chr 2:14 : 14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to grave any manner of graving, and to devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed unto him with thy skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord David thy father.
- Jer 46:22-23 : 22 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. 23 They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
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6And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
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15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him that is] not wood.
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14He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.
- Jer 10:3-53 verses72%
3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
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8Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid low, no hewer is come up against us.
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4Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs.
- Ezek 31:3-108 verses71%
3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
4The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field.
5Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.
6All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.
7Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.
8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.
9I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
10Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou art exalted in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; [
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34And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
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9Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith; [and] he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.
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11And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in [ their height with the multitude of their branches.
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22The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
- Lam 5:12-132 verses70%
12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
13The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
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14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
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16Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
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7And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
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13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
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10The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.
- 2 Kgs 6:4-52 verses69%
4So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
5But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
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14As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,
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11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
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4The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength.
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10The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.
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3Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
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8For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
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9And even now the axe also lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
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5They have made all thy planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for thee.
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14He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.
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25When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: By reason of consternation they are beside themselves.
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16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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16They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
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2Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.
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12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
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5The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands.
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24And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.
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9Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
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7As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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4Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.
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19When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?
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11The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.