Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

Amplified


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

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
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 Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with violence; and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be brought low; 34 and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Cross References

Isaiah 37:24

By thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; and I will enter into its furthest height, into the forest of its fruitful field.

Psalm 103:20

Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

Isaiah 10:18

and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a sick man fainteth.

Isaiah 31:8

And Asshur shall fall by the sword, not of a great man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become tributary;

Isaiah 37:36

And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.

Jeremiah 22:7

And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down the choice of thy cedars, and cast them into the fire.

Jeremiah 46:22-23

Her voice shall go like a serpent's; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

Jeremiah 48:2

Moab's praise is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be cut down; the sword shall pursue thee.

Daniel 4:13-14

I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the heavens;

Daniel 4:23

And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be bathed with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him:

Nahum 1:12

Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be complete in number, and many as they be, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away; and though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

Zechariah 11:1-2

Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

2 Thessalonians 1:7

and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with the angels of his power,

2 Peter 2:11

when angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring against them, before the Lord, an injurious charge.

Revelation 10:1

And I saw another strong angel coming down out of the heaven, clothed with a cloud, and the rainbow upon his head, and his countenance as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,

Revelation 18:21

And a strong angel took up a stone, as a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more at all;

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