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Isaiah 10:34
He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet delivers this declaration of the Lord GOD of Hosts immediately after describing the felling of lofty trees in verse 33, marking the moment of divine judgment against the proud kingdom.
The words — וְ/נִקַּ֛ף (ni.Kaf) means "he will cut down," and בְּ/אַדִּ֥יר ('a.Dir) translates to "by a mighty one."
The thread — The imagery of divine felling continues in Isaiah 10:33, which describes the Lord lopping off branches with terrifying power, and the total consumption of forests appears in Isaiah 10:18.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that political and natural powers are subject to a decisive, unyielding judgment that reduces their strength to fallen timber.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 37:24 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.
- Psalms 103:20 Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command.
- Isaiah 10:18 The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
- Isaiah 31:8 “Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
- Isaiah 37:36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- Jeremiah 22:7 I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
- Jeremiah 46:22 Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.
- Jeremiah 48:2 There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
- Daniel 4:13 As I lay on my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven.
- Daniel 4:23 And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and graze with the beasts of the field till seven times pass him by.’