Isaiah 10:34 “He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall b…”

Isaiah 10:34

He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.

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Cross references

“cut down”

Isaiah 37:24 Isaiah 10:18 Jeremiah 22:7 Jeremiah 48:2 Nahum 1:12 Jeremiah 46:22

Isaiah 37:24 · BSB

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest o…

Isaiah 10:18 · BSB

The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.

Jeremiah 22:7 · BSB

I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.

Jeremiah 48:2 · BSB

There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

Nahum 1:12 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.

Jeremiah 46:22 · BSB

Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.

“Lebanon”

Zechariah 11:1 Zechariah 11:2

Zechariah 11:1 · BSB

Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

Zechariah 11:2 · BSB

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!

“by a mighty one”

Isaiah 31:8 Isaiah 37:36 Psalm 103:20 Daniel 4:23 2 Thessalonians 1:7 2 Peter 2:11

Isaiah 31:8 · BSB

“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.

Isaiah 37:36 · BSB

Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Psalm 103:20 · BSB

Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command.

Daniel 4:23 · BSB

And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender…

2 Thessalonians 1:7 · BSB

and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

2 Peter 2:11 · BSB

Yet not even angels, though greater in strength and power, dare to bring such slanderous charges against them before the Lord.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

33Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.

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