Parallel Verses

Amplified


He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe,
And Lebanon (the Assyrian) will fall by the Mighty One.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He is clearing the thickets of the forest with an ax,
and Lebanon with its majesty will fall.

International Standard Version

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One."

A Conservative Version

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

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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with the axe, and Lebanon will fall by [the] mighty [one].

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The thorns of the wood shall be rooted out with iron, and Lebanon shall have a mighty fall.

NET Bible

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Then will he fell the thickets of the forest with iron, - And, Lebanon by a majestic one shall fall.

Webster

And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests 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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And he shall cut down
נקף 
Naqaph 
Usage: 19

the thickets
סבך 
C@bak 
Usage: 4

of the forest
יער 
Ya`ar 
Usage: 58

with iron
בּרזל 
Barzel 
Usage: 76

and Lebanon
לבנון 
L@banown 
Usage: 71

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

God Will Judge Assyria

33
Listen carefully, the Lord, the God of hosts, will lop off the [beautiful] boughs with terrifying force;
The tall in stature will be cut down
And the lofty will be abased and humiliated.
34 
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe,
And Lebanon (the Assyrian) will fall by the Mighty One.



Cross References

Isaiah 37:24


“Through your servants you have taunted and defied the Lord,
And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon.
I cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypress trees;
And I will go to its remotest height, its most luxuriant and thickest forest.

Psalm 103:20


Bless the Lord, you His angels,
You mighty ones who do His commandments,
Obeying the voice of His word!

Isaiah 10:18


The Lord will consume the glory of Assyria’s forest and of its fruitful garden, both soul and body,
And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

Isaiah 31:8


Then the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of man will devour him.
And he will flee from the sword [of God],
And his young men will become forced labor.

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the [surviving] men got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead.

Jeremiah 22:7


“For I will prepare and appoint destroyers [to execute My judgments] against you,
Each with his weapons;
And they will cut down your [palaces built of] choicest cedars
And throw them in the fire.

Jeremiah 46:22-23


“The sound [of Egypt fleeing from the enemy] is like [the rustling of] an escaping serpent,
For her foes advance with a mighty army
And come against her like woodcutters with axes.

Jeremiah 48:2


“The glory of Moab is no more;
In Heshbon they planned evil against her,
Saying, ‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’
You also, O [city of] Madmen, shall be silenced;
The sword will pursue you.

Daniel 4:13-14

‘And behold, I saw in the visions of my mind as I lay on my bed, an angelic watcher, a holy one, descended from heaven.

Daniel 4:23

In that the king saw an angelic watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, “Cut the tree down and destroy it; but leave the stump with its roots in the earth, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let him feed with the beasts of the field until seven periods of time pass over him,”

Nahum 1:12

This is what the Lord says,

“Though they are at full strength and many in number,
Even so, they will be cut off and pass away.
Though I have afflicted you and caused you grief [O Jerusalem],
I will afflict you no longer.

Zechariah 11:1-2

Open your doors, O Lebanon,
That fire may devour your cedars.

2 Thessalonians 1:7

and to give relief to you who are so distressed and to us as well when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in a flame of fire,

2 Peter 2:11

whereas even angels who are superior in might and power do not bring a reviling (defaming) accusation against them before the Lord.

Revelation 10:1

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed in a cloud, with a rainbow (halo) over his head; and his face was like the sun, and his feet (legs) were like columns of fire;

Revelation 18:21

Then a single powerful angel picked up a boulder like a great millstone and flung it into the sea, saying, “With such violence will Babylon the great city be hurled down [by the sudden, spectacular judgment of God], and will never again be found.

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