Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
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2Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?
3Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?
4See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?
5Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?
10It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...
5They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.
6Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.
14He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
31For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be broken, and the Lord's rod will be lifted up against him.
32And every blow of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will send on him, will be with the sound of music: and with the waving of his sword the Lord will make war against him.
3For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
4They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.
5It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
9He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.
16For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.
33See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.
34And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.
26And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.
12Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?
9Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
4... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
14In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.
10And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.
5The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;
7He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
8Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.
10For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.
22She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters.
15See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.
20You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
11Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.
12The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
13For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
14And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
10For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high,
13You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?
24And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.
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11When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
9But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?
10Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us.
31And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.
19A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.
24For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.
3See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.
11And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.
5But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's.
2See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.
14Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches: