Psalms 74:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that [there is] not among us any that can skill to hew 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 find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
  • Jer 46:22-23 : 22 The voice thereof shall go like a 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 the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.

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    80%

    6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.

  • Isa 44:14
    74%

    14He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish [it].

  • Jer 10:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3For the customs of the people [are] vain: 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.

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  • Isa 14:8
    71%

    8Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

  • Ps 74:4
    71%

    4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns [for] signs.

  • Ezek 31:3-10
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    71%

    3Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

    4The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

    5Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

    6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

    7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

    8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

    9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that [were] in the garden of God, envied him.

    10¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

  • Isa 10:34
    71%

    34And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

  • Eccl 10:9
    70%

    9Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; [and] he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

  • Ezek 19:11
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    11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

  • Jer 46:22
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    22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

  • Lam 5:12-13
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    70%

    12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

    13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

  • Ezek 31:14
    70%

    14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, 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] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.

  • Jer 22:7
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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.

  • Isa 2:13
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    13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

  • Ps 80:10
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    10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof [were like] the goodly cedars.

  • 2 Kgs 6:4-5
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    69%

    4So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

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    14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

  • Hab 2:11
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    11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
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    4The bows of the mighty men [are] broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

  • Isa 9:10
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    10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars.

  • Ezek 15:3
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    3Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will [men] take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

  • 2 Sam 18:8
    68%

    8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

  • Luke 3:9
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    9And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

  • Ezek 27:5
    68%

    5They have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

  • Dan 4:14
    68%

    14He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:

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    16[It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

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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 rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

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