Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

It will be known according to bringing the axes upwards upon the thicket of wood.

New American Standard Bible

It seems as if one had lifted up
His axe in a forest of trees.

King James Version

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Holman Bible

It was like men in a thicket of trees,
wielding axes,

International Standard Version

As one blazes a trail through a forest with an ax,

A Conservative Version

They seemed as men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees.

American Standard Version

They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

Amplified


It seems as if one had lifted up
An axe in a forest of trees [to set a record of destruction].

Bible in Basic English

They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

Darby Translation

A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

King James 2000

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They are known [to be] like [those who] {wield} axes in a thicket of trees.

Modern King James verseion

He is known as one bringing axes on high, on the thick trees.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees was known to bring it to an excellent work.

NET Bible

They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.

New Heart English Bible

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

The Emphasized Bible

One used to be known according as he carried up high - into the thicket of trees - the axes;

Webster

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

World English Bible

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

Easton

Axe

Hastings

Context Readings

Prayer For Israel

4 Thine enemies roared in the midst of thine appointment; they set their signs, signs. 5 It will be known according to bringing the axes upwards upon the thicket of wood. 6 And now with axes and hammers they will beat her engravings.

Cross References

1 Kings 5:6

And now command and they shall cut for me cedars from Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and the hire of thy servants will I give to thee according to all which thou shalt say: for thou knewest that not among us a man knowing to cut wood as the Sidonians.

2 Chronicles 2:14

The son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre knowing to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and in woods, in purple, in cerulean purple, and in byssus, and in crimson; and to engrave every engraving, and to invent every work of art which shall be given to him, with thy wise ones, and the wise of my lord David thy father.

Jeremiah 46:22-23

Her voice shall go as the serpent; for with an army in the sand they shall go, and with axes they came to her, as they hewing wood.

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