Psalms 74:5

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It appeared like one lifting up axes against a thick forest.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.
  • 2 Chr 2:14 : 14 Now, let my lord send the wheat, barley, oil, and wine that he has promised to his servants.
  • Jer 46:22-23 : 22 Her voice will hiss like a serpent as they advance in force; with axes they come against her, like those who cut down trees. 23 They will cut down her forest, declares the Lord, though it is dense. They are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

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    6Now they smash all its carved work together with hatchets and hammers.

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  • Isa 44:14
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    14He cuts down cedars or chooses a cypress or an oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow.

  • Jer 10:3-5
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    3For the customs of the nations are worthless. They cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

    4They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers so it will not totter.

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    8Even the cypresses rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.'

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    4Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your assembly place; they have set up their signs as signs.

  • Ezek 31:3-10
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    3Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches, dense shade, and towering height, its top reaching among the thick clouds.

    4The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, sending its rivers around its planting place, and they watered all the trees of the field.

    5So it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long because of the abundance of water as it sent them out.

    6All the birds of the sky nested in its branches, every beast of the field gave birth under its boughs, and all the great nations lived in its shade.

    7It was majestic in its size, with long branches, because its roots reached abundant waters.

    8The cedars in God's garden could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare to its branches, and the plane trees were not like its boughs. No tree in the garden of God was equal to it in beauty.

    9I made it beautiful with its many branches, and all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, envied it.

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  • Eccl 10:9
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    9One who quarries stones may be hurt by them, and one who splits wood may be endangered by it.

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