Jeremiah 46:22

Tree of Life Version

Its sound will hiss like a snake, as they march with an army, and come against her as woodcutters with axes.

Cross References

Psalm 74:5

It seemed like bringing up axes into a thicket of trees—

Isaiah 10:15

Should the axe boast against the One who chops with it? Should the saw magnify itself against the One who wields it? It would be like a rod waving the One who lifts it, or like a staff hoisting up the One who is not wood!

Isaiah 14:8

Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, along with the cedars of Lebanon: “Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.”

Isaiah 29:4

You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground. From the dust where you are prostrate your speech will come. Your voice will be like a ghost out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 37:24

Through your servants, you have blasphemed my Lord and said: ‘With my many chariots I have climbed to the heights of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon! I cut down its tall cedars and choice cypress trees. I have gone to its farthest peak, its thickest forest.

Jeremiah 46:21

Even her mercenaries among her are like stall-fed calves, for they also will turn back— they will flee away together, they will not stand up— for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their visitation.

Jeremiah 46:23

They cut down her forest” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “though it was impenetrable, for they are worse than the locust —they are without number.

Micah 1:8

Concerning this let me lament and howl. Let me walk barefoot and naked. I will make a howl like jackals and a mourning like ostriches.

Micah 7:16

Nations will see and be put to shame despite all their might. They will put a hand on their mouth, their ears will be deaf.

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, cypress tree! For the cedar has fallen. Those majestic ones are devastated. Wail, oaks of Bashan! For the thick forest is cut down!

Joshua 9:21

“Yes, let them live,” the leaders said further, “but let them chop wood and draw water for the entire community.” So the leaders decreed concerning them.