'Cuts' in the Bible
"You are not to make incisions in your flesh on account of the dead nor submit to cuts or tattoos. I am the LORD.
He cuts a channel through the rocks, while his eyes search for anything of value.
"Who cuts canals for storm floods, and paths for the lightning and thunder,
Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
For before the harvest, when the season of budding is over, and sour grapes ripen into mature grapes, he cuts off the shoots with pruning knives, clearing away the spreading branches as he lops them off.
My house has been plucked up and vanishes from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver, I've taken account of my life, and he cuts me off from the loom day and night you make an end of me.
He cuts down cedars, or chooses a cypress tree or an oak, and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. Or he plants a cedar, and the rain makes it grow.
How terrible for him who says, "I'll build a large house for myself with spacious upper rooms, who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it red.'