Psalms 74:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

He that lifted the axes vpon the thicke trees, was renowmed, as one, that brought a thing to perfection:

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 Now therefore commaund, that they hewe me cedar trees out of Lebanon, and my seruants shall be with thy seruants, and vnto thee will I giue the hire for thy seruants, according to all that thou shalt appoynt: for thou knowest that there are none among vs, that can hewe timber like vnto the Sidonians.
  • 2 Chr 2:14 : 14 The sonne of a woman of the daughters of Dan: and his father was a man of Tyrus, and he can skill to worke in golde, in siluer, in brasse, in yron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue silke, and in fine linen, and in crimosin, and can graue in all grauen workes, and broyder in all broydered worke that shalbe giuen him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord Dauid thy father.
  • Jer 46:22-23 : 22 The voyce thereof shall goe foorth like a serpent: for they shall march with an armie, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. 23 They shall cut downe her forest, saith the Lord: for they cannot be counted, because they are moe then ye grashoppers, & are innumerable.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 74:6
    80%

    6But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.

  • Isa 10:15
    75%

    15Shall the axe boast it selfe against him that heweth therewith? or shall the sawe exalt it selfe against him that moueth it? as if the rod shoulde lift vp it selfe against him that taketh it vp, or the staffe should exalt it selfe, as it were no wood.

  • Isa 44:14
    74%

    14He will hewe him downe cedars, and take the pine tree and the oke, and taketh courage among the trees of the forest: he planteth a firre tree, and the raine doeth nourish it.

  • Jer 10:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3For the customes of the people are vaine: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (which is the worke of the handes of the carpenter) with the axe,

    4And another decketh it with siluer, and with golde: they fasten it with nailes, and hammers, that it fall not.

    5The idoles stande vp as the palme tree, but speake not: they are borne because they cannot go feare them not, for they cannot do euill, neither can they do good.

  • Isa 14:8
    71%

    8Also the firre trees reioyced of thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid downe, no hewer came vp against vs.

  • Ps 74:4
    71%

    4Thine aduersaries roare in the middes of thy Congregation, and set vp their banners for signes.

  • Ezek 31:3-10
    8 verses
    71%

    3Beholde, Asshur was like a cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, & with thicke shadowing boughes, and shot vp very hye, and his toppe was among the thicke boughes.

    4The waters nourished him, and the deepe exalted him on hie with her riuers running round about his plants, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde.

    5Therefore his height was exalted aboue all the trees of the fielde, and his boughes were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out.

    6All the foules of the heauen made their nestes in his boughes, and vnder his branches did all the beastes of the fielde bring foorth their yong, and vnder his shadowe dwelt all mightie nations.

    7Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters.

    8The cedars in the garden of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie.

    9I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.

    10Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Because he is lift vp on high, and hath shot vp his toppe among the thicke boughes, and his heart is lift vp in his height,

  • Isa 10:34
    71%

    34And he shall cut away the thicke places of the forest with yron, and Lebanon shall haue a mightie fall.

  • Eccl 10:9
    70%

    9He that remooueth stones, shall hurt himselfe thereby, and hee that cutteth wood, shall be in danger thereby.

  • Ezek 19:11
    70%

    11And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

  • Jer 46:22
    70%

    22The voyce thereof shall goe foorth like a serpent: for they shall march with an armie, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

  • Lam 5:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.

    13They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.

  • Ezek 31:14
    70%

    14So that none of all the trees by the waters shalbe exalted by their height, neither shall shoote vp their toppe among the thicke boughes, neither shall their leaues stand vp in their height, which drinke so much water: for they are all deliuered vnto death in the nether partes of the earth in the middes of the children of men among them that goe downe to the pit.

  • Jer 5:16
    70%

    16Whose quiuer is as an open sepulchre: they are all very strong.

  • Jer 22:7
    70%

    7And I will prepare destroyers against thee, euery one with his weapons, and they shall cut downe thy chiefe cedar trees, and cast them in the fire.

  • Isa 2:13
    69%

    13Euen vpon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are hie & exalted, & vpon all the okes of Bashan,

  • Ps 80:10
    69%

    10The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.

  • 2 Kgs 6:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4So he went with them, & when they came to Iorden, they cut downe wood.

    5And as one was felling of a tree, the yron fell into the water: then he cryed, and said, Alas master, it was but borowed.

  • Ps 83:14
    68%

    14As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:

  • Hab 2:11
    68%

    11For the stone shall crie out of the wall, and the beame out of the timber shal answere it.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
    68%

    4The bow and the mightie men are broken, and the weake haue girded themselues with strength.

  • Isa 9:10
    68%

    10The brickes are fallen, but we will build it with hewen stones: the wilde figge trees are cut downe, but we will change them into ceders.

  • Ezek 15:3
    68%

    3Shall wood bee taken thereof to doe any worke? or wil men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

  • 2 Sam 18:8
    68%

    8For the battel was skattered ouer all the countrey: and the wood deuoured much more people that day, then did the sworde.

  • Luke 3:9
    68%

    9Nowe also is the axe layed vnto the roote of the trees: therefore euery tree which bringeth not foorth good fruite, shalbe hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

  • Ezek 27:5
    68%

    5They haue made all thy shippe boardes of firre trees of Shenir: they haue brought cedars from Lebanon, to make mastes for thee.

  • Dan 4:14
    68%

    14(4:11) And cried aloude, and said thus, Hew downe the tree, and breake off his branches: shake off his leaues, and scatter his fruite, that the beastes may flee from vnder it, and the foules from his branches.

  • Job 41:25
    67%

    25(41:16) The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues.

  • Ps 80:16
    67%

    16It is burnt with fire and cut downe: and they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • Isa 14:16
    67%

    16They that see thee, shall looke vpon thee and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, and that did shake the kingdomes?

  • Zech 11:2
    67%

    2Houle, firre trees: for the cedar is fallen, because all the mightie are destroyed: houle ye, O okes of Bashan, for ye defesed forest is cut downe.

  • Ezek 31:12
    67%

    12And the strangers haue destroyed him, euen the terrible nations, and they haue left him vpon the mountaines, and in all the valleis his branches are fallen, and his boughes are broken by all the riuers of the land: and all the people of the earth are departed from his shadowe, and haue forsaken him.

  • Ps 76:5
    67%

    5The stout hearted are spoyled: they haue slept their sleepe, and all the men of strength haue not found their hands.

  • Ezek 17:24
    67%

    24And all the trees of the fielde shal knowe that I the Lord haue brought downe the hie tree, and exalted the lowe tree, that I haue dried vp the greene tree, and made the drie tree to florish: I the Lord haue spoken it, and haue done it.

  • Amos 2:9
    67%

    9Yet destroyed I the Amorite before the, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the okes: notwithstanding I destroyed his fruite from aboue, and his roote from beneath.

  • Ps 141:7
    67%

    7Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth.

  • Ps 120:4
    67%

    4It is as the sharpe arrowes of a mightie man, and as the coales of iuniper.

  • Deut 20:19
    67%

    19When thou hast besieged a citie long time, & made warre against it to take it, destroy not the trees therof, by smiting an axe into them: for thou mayest eate of them: therfore thou shalt not cut them downe to further thee in the siege, (for the tree of the field is mans life )

  • Dan 4:11
    67%

    11(4:8) A great tree and strong, and the height thereof reached vnto heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.