Psalms 74:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants, and I will give you hire for your servants according to all that you designate, for you know that there is none among us who can skillfully cut timber like 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, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise every design that shall be put to him, with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your 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, says the LORD, though it cannot be comprehended; because they are more numerous than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

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  • Ps 74:6
    80%

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

  • Isa 10:15
    75%

    15Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.

  • Isa 44:14
    74%

    14He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.

  • Jer 10:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

    4They decorate it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, so that it does not move.

    5They stand upright like a palm tree, but do not speak: they must be carried, because they cannot go. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

  • Isa 14:8
    71%

    8Yes, the pine trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no woodcutter comes up against us.

  • Ps 74:4
    71%

    4Your enemies roar in the midst of Your congregations; they set up their banners for signs.

  • Ezek 31:3-10
    8 verses
    71%

    3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a sheltering canopy, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

    4The waters made it great, the deep set it up on high with its rivers running around its plants, and sent out its little rivers to all the trees of the field.

    5Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long because of the multitude of waters as it spread out.

    6All the birds of heaven made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow all great nations dwelt.

    7Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by great waters.

    8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like its branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

    9I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

    10Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have lifted yourself up in height, and it has set its top among the thick boughs, and its heart is lifted up in its height;

  • Isa 10:34
    71%

    34And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by the Mighty One.

  • Eccl 10:9
    70%

    9Whoso removes stones shall be hurt by them; and he who splits wood shall be endangered by it.

  • Ezek 19:11
    70%

    11And she had strong rods for scepters of those who bore 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
    70%

    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
    2 verses
    70%

    12Princes were hung up by their hands; the faces of elders were not honored.

    13They took the young men to grind, and the children stumbled under the loads of wood.

  • Ezek 31:14
    70%

    14So that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, nor set their top among the thick boughs, nor any tree stand up to its height, all that drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

  • Jer 5:16
    70%

    16Their quiver is like an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

  • Jer 22:7
    70%

    7And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Isa 2:13
    69%

    13And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

  • Ps 80:10
    69%

    10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and its boughs were like the majestic cedars.

  • 2 Kgs 6:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

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

    5But as one was cutting a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

  • Ps 83:14
    68%

    14As the fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

  • Hab 2:11
    68%

    11For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
    68%

    4The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength.

  • Isa 9:10
    68%

    10The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.

  • Ezek 15:3
    68%

    3Shall wood be taken from it to do any work? Or will one take a peg from it to hang any vessel upon?

  • 2 Sam 18:8
    68%

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

  • Luke 3:9
    68%

    9And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore that does not produce good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

  • Ezek 27:5
    68%

    5They have made all your ship boards of fir trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.

  • Dan 4:14
    68%

    14He cried aloud, and said this, 'Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the birds from its branches.

  • Job 41:25
    67%

    25When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; because of the crashing they are beside themselves.

  • Ps 80:16
    67%

    16It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

  • Isa 14:16
    67%

    16They that see you will look narrowly upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;

  • Zech 11:2
    67%

    2Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen; because the mighty are destroyed. Howl, O oaks of Bashan, for the forest of the vintage has come down.

  • Ezek 31:12
    67%

    12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut it off and have left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shadow and have left it.

  • Ps 76:5
    67%

    5The stouthearted have been plundered, they have slept their sleep; and none of the mighty men have found their hands.

  • Ezek 17:24
    67%

    24And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

  • Amos 2:9
    67%

    9Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

  • Ps 141:7
    67%

    7Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth.

  • Ps 120:4
    67%

    4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

  • Deut 20:19
    67%

    19When you besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees by forcing an axe against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

  • Dan 4:11
    67%

    11The tree grew and was strong, and its height reached unto heaven, and its sight to the end of all the earth.