Psalms 74:5
They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.
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- 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians.”
- 2 Chr 2:14 : 14 whose mother is a Danite and whose father is a Tyrian. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stones, and wood, as well as purple, blue, white, and crimson fabrics. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and understands any design given to him. He will work with your skilled craftsmen and the skilled craftsmen of my lord David your father.
- Jer 46:22-23 : 22 Egypt will run away, hissing like a snake, as the enemy comes marching up in force. They will come against her with axes as if they were woodsmen chopping down trees. 23 The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest. But I, the LORD, affirm that the enemy will cut them down. For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts. They will be too numerous to count.
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6And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.
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15Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!
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14He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.
- Jer 10:3-53 verses72%
3For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools.
4He decorates it with overlays of silver and gold. He uses hammer and nails to fasten it together so that it will not fall over.
5Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you.”
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8The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing,‘Since you fell asleep, no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’
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4Your enemies roar in the middle of your sanctuary; they set up their battle flags.
- Ezek 31:3-108 verses71%
3Consider Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade, and extremely tall; its top reached into the clouds.
4The water made it grow; underground springs made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted, while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.
5Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches grew long, because of the plentiful water in its shoots.
6All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth, in its shade all the great nations lived.
7It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.
8The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.
9I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.
10“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because it was tall in stature, and its top reached into the clouds, and it was proud of its height,
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34The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall.
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9One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.
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11Its boughs were strong, fit for rulers’ scepters; it reached up into the clouds. It stood out because of its height and its many branches.
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22Egypt will run away, hissing like a snake, as the enemy comes marching up in force. They will come against her with axes as if they were woodsmen chopping down trees.
- Lam 5:12-132 verses70%
12Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
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14For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the Pit.
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16All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.
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7I will send men against it to destroy it with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire.
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13for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are so high and mighty, for all the oaks of Bashan;
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10The mountains were covered by its shadow, the highest cedars by its branches.
- 2 Kgs 6:4-52 verses69%
4So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they started cutting down trees.
5As one of them was felling a log, the ax head dropped into the water. He shouted,“Oh no, my master! It was borrowed!”
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14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,
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11For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back.
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4The bows of warriors are shattered, but those who stumbled have taken on strength.
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10“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with chiseled stone; the sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.”
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3Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?
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8The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.
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9Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
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5They crafted all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.
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14He called out loudly as follows:‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches! Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit! Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches!
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25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.
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16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.
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16Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking:“Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?
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2Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen.
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12Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land have departed from its shade and left it.
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5The bravehearted were plundered; they“fell asleep.” All the warriors were helpless.
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24All the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree. I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it!’”
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9For Israel’s sake I destroyed the Amorites. They were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed the fruit on their branches and their roots in the ground.
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7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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4Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.
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19If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!
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11The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen from the borders of all the land.