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.

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Bible References

Voice

Isaiah 29:4
And thou hast been low, From the earth thou speakest, And from the dust makest thy saying low, And thy voice hath been from the earth, As one having a familiar spirit, And from the dust thy saying whisperest,
Micah 1:8
For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.
Micah 7:16
See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

And come

Jeremiah 51:20
An axe art thou to me -- weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms,
Isaiah 10:15
-- 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!
Isaiah 14:8
Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon -- saying: Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us.
Isaiah 37:24
By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
Zechariah 11:2
Howl, 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,

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Psalm 74:5
He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes.