Psalms 74:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 5:6 : 6 `And now, command, and they cut down for me cedars out of Lebanon, and my servants are with thy servants, and the hire of thy servants I give to thee according to all that thou sayest, for thou hast known that there is not among us a man acquainted with cutting wood, like the Sidonians.'
  • 2 Chr 2:14 : 14 (son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre), knowing to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and in wood, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, and to grave any graving, and to devise any device that is given to him, with thy wise men, and the wise men of my lord David thy father.
  • Jer 46:22-23 : 22 Its voice as a serpent goeth on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees. 23 They have cut down her forest, An affirmation of Jehovah -- for it is not searched, For they have been more than the grasshopper, And they have no numbering.

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  • 6And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,

  • 15-- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!

  • 14Cutting down to himself cedars, He taketh also a cypress, and an oak, And he strengtheneth `it' for himself Among the trees of a forest, He hath planted an ash, and the shower doth nourish `it'.

  • Jer 10:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,

    4With silver and with gold they beautify it, With nails and with hammers they fix it, And it doth not stumble.

    5As a palm they `are' stiff, and they speak not, They are surely borne, for they step not, Be not afraid of them, for they do no evil, Yea, also to do good is not in them.

  • 8Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon -- `saying': Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us.

  • 4Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns.

  • Ezek 31:3-10
    8 verses
    71%

    3Lo, Asshur, a cedar in Lebanon, Fair in branch, and shading bough, and high in stature, And between thickets hath its foliage been.

    4Waters have made it great, The deep hath exalted him with its flowings, Going round about its planting, And its conduits it hath sent forth unto all trees of the field.

    5Therefore higher hath been his stature than all trees of the field, And multiplied are his boughs, and long are his branches, Because of many waters in his shooting forth,

    6In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations.

    7And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters.

    8Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,

    9Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that `are' in the garden of God.

    10Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,

  • 34And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!

  • 9Whoso is removing stones is grieved by them, Whoso is cleaving trees endangered by them.

  • 11And it hath strong rods for sceptres of rulers, And high is its stature above thick branches, And it appeareth in its height In the multitude of its thin shoots.

  • 22Its voice as a serpent goeth on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees.

  • Lam 5:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

    13Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

  • 14In order that none of the trees of the waters May become haughty because of their stature, Nor give their foliage between thickets, Nor any drinking waters stand up unto them in their haughtiness, For all of them are given up to death, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the sons of men, Unto those going down to the pit.

  • 16Its quiver `is' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.

  • 7And I have separated for thee destroyers, Each with his weapons, And they have cut down the choice of thy cedars, And have cast them on the fire.

  • 13And for all cedars of Lebanon, The high and the exalted ones, And for all oaks of Bashan,

  • 10Covered have been hills `with' its shadow, And its boughs `are' cedars of God.

  • 2 Kgs 6:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4And he goeth with them, and they come in to the Jordan, and cut down the trees,

    5and it cometh to pass, the one is felling the beam, and the iron hath fallen into the water, and he crieth and saith, `Alas! my lord, and it asked!'

  • 14As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

  • 11For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.

  • 4Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

  • 10`Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.'

  • 3Is wood taken from it to use for work? Do they take of it a pin to hang any vessel on it?

  • 8and the battle is there scattered over the face of all the land, and the forest multiplieth to devour among the people more than those whom the sword hath devoured in that day.

  • 9and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.'

  • 5Of firs of Senir they have built to thee all thy double-boarded ships, Of cedars of Lebanon they have taken to make a mast for thee,

  • 14He is calling mightily, and thus hath said, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its budding, move away let the beast from under it, and the birds from off its branches;

  • 25From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.

  • 16Burnt with fire -- cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.

  • 16Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?

  • 2Howl, O fir, for fallen hath the cedar, For their honourable ones were destroyed, Howl, ye oaks of Bashan, For come down hath the fenced forest,

  • 12And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him.

  • 5Spoiled themselves have the mighty of heart, They have slept their sleep, And none of the men of might found their hands.

  • 24And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done `it'!'

  • 9And I -- I have destroyed the Amorite from before them, Whose height `is' as the height of cedars, And strong he `is' as the oaks, And I destroy his fruit from above, And his roots from beneath.

  • 7As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.

  • 4Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.

  • 19`When thou layest siege unto a city many days, to fight against it, to capture it, thou dost not destroy its trees to force an axe against them, for of them thou dost eat, and them thou dost not cut down -- for man's `is' the tree of the field -- to go in at thy presence in the siege.

  • 11become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;