Psalms 74:5
They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.
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- 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.
- 2 Chr 2:14 : 14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron, in stone and wood, in purple and blue and fair linen and red, trained in the cutting of every sort of ornament and the invention of every sort of design; let him be given a place among your expert workmen and those of my lord, your father David.
- Jer 46:22-23 : 22 She makes a sound like the hiss of a snake when they come on with strength; they go against her with axes, like wood-cutters. 23 They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.
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6Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.
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15Will 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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4Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.
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3See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.
4It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.
5In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.
6In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.
7So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.
8No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.
9I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.
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,
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34And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.
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9He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.
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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.
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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.
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12Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
13The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
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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.
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16Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
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7And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.
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13And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;
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10The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.
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4So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they got to work cutting down trees.
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.
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14As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,
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11For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
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4The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.
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10The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.
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3Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?
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8And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.
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9And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire.
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5They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails.
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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:
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25Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.
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16It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.
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16Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
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2Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.
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12And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.
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5Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.
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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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9Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.
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7Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.
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4Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.
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19If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?
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11And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth: