Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
Voice
General references
Bible References
Voice
Isaiah 29:4
And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.
Micah 1:8
For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
Micah 7:16
The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.
And come
Jeremiah 51:20
You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
Isaiah 10:15
Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
Isaiah 14:8
Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.
Isaiah 37:24
You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
Zechariah 11:2
Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.
General references
Psalm 74:5
They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.