Isaiah 10:34

Literal Standard Version

And He has gone around the thickets of the forest with iron, || And Lebanon falls by a mighty one!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He is clearing the thickets of the forest with an ax,and Lebanon with its majesty will fall.

Hebrew Names Version
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Levanon shall fall by a mighty one.

King James Version
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

English Standard Version
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.

New American Standard Bible
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

New Century Version
He will cut them down as a forest is cut down with an ax. And the great trees of Lebanon will fall by the power of the Mighty One.

Amplified Bible
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon (the Assyrian) will fall by the Mighty One.

World English Bible
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he shall cut away the thicke places of the forest with yron, and Lebanon shall haue a mightie fall.

Legacy Standard Bible
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe,And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

Berean Standard Bible
He will clear the forest thickets with an ax, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

Contemporary English Version
With an ax, the glorious Lord will destroy every tree in the forests of Lebanon.

Complete Jewish Bible
He will hack down the forest underbrush with an axe, and the L'vanon in its splendor falls.

Darby Translation
and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Easy-to-Read Version
God will cut down his enemies. Like the tall trees of Lebanon he will cut them down with an ax.

George Lamsa Translation
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon with its glory shall fall.

Good News Translation
The Lord will cut them down as trees in the heart of the forest are cut down with an ax, as even the finest trees of Lebanon fall!

Lexham English Bible
And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with the axe, and Lebanon will fall by the mighty one.

Literal Translation
And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The thornes of the wod shal be rooted out wt yron, and Libanus shal haue a mightie fal.

American Standard Version
And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Bible in Basic English
And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And He shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

King James Version (1611)
And he shall cut downe the thickets of the forrests with yron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mightie one.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The thickets also of the wood shall he roote out with iron, and Libanus shall haue a fall thorowe the mightie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the lofty ones shall fall by the sword, and the Libanus shall fall with his lofty ones.

English Revised Version
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And proude men schulen be maade low, and the thicke thingis of the forest schulen be distried bi irun; and the Liban with hiy thingis schal falle doun.

Update Bible Version
And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

New English Translation
The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall.

New King James Version
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

New Living Translation
He will cut down the forest trees with an ax. Lebanon will fall to the Mighty One.

New Life Bible
He will cut down the many trees with an iron ax. And Lebanon will fall by the Powerful One.

New Revised Standard
He will hack down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon with its majestic trees will fall.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then will he fell the thickets of the forest with iron, - And, Lebanon by a majestic one shall fall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the thickets of the forest shall be cut down with iron, and Libanus with its high ones shall fall.

Revised Standard Version
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon with its majestic trees will fall.

Young's Literal Translation
And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe, And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

Contextual Overview

²⁴Therefore, thus said the Lord, YHWH of Hosts: "Do not be afraid, My people, inhabiting Zion, because of Asshur, || He strikes you with a rod, || And his staff lifts up against you, in the way of Egypt. ²⁵For yet a very little [while], || And the indignation has been completed, || And My anger by their wearing out." ²⁶And YHWH of Hosts is awaking for him, || A scourge like the striking of Midian at the rock Oreb, || And his rod [is] over the sea, || And he has lifted it in the way of Egypt. ²⁷And it has come to pass in that day, || His burden is turned from off your shoulder, || And his yoke from off your neck, || And the yoke has been destroyed, because of prosperity. ²⁸He has come in against Aiath, || He has passed over into Migron, || At Michmash he looks after his vessels. ²⁹They have gone over the passage, || They have made Geba a lodging place, || Rama has trembled, || Gibeah of Saul fled. ³⁰Cry aloud [with] your voice, daughter of Gallim, || Give attention, Laish! Answer her, Anathoth. ³¹Madmenah has fled away, || The inhabitants of the high places have hardened themselves. ³²Yet today to remain in Nob, || The mountain of the daughter of Zion waves its hand, || The hill of Jerusalem. ³³Behold, the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, || Is lopping a branch with violence, || And the high of stature are cut down, || And the lofty have become low,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cut down: Isaiah 10:18, Isaiah 37:24, Jeremiah 22:7, Jeremiah 46:22, Jeremiah 46:23, Jeremiah 48:2, Nahum 1:12

Lebanon: Zechariah 11:1, Zechariah 11:2

by a mighty one: or, mightily, Isaiah 31:8, Isaiah 37:36, Psalms 103:20, Daniel 4:13, Daniel 4:14, Daniel 4:23, 2 Thessalonians 1:7, 2 Peter 2:11, Revelation 10:1, Revelation 18:21

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:5 - ax head 2 Chronicles 32:21 - the leaders Psalms 37:36 - General Isaiah 2:13 - General Isaiah 10:25 - For yet Isaiah 17:13 - but Isaiah 37:7 - I will Isaiah 48:3 - and I Isaiah 51:13 - where is Ezekiel 31:3 - a cedar Daniel 4:10 - a tree Joel 3:11 - cause Luke 3:9 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,.... The multitude of the common soldiers, the whole body of the army, by means of one of his angels, that excel in strength, for which he is compared to "iron"; and which is explained in the next clause:

and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one; the Assyrian army is compared to the forest of Lebanon, for the multitude of trees in it, and the tallness of its cedars, it abounding not only with common soldiers, but with great men; so it is compared to a forest, and to Carmel, or a fruitful field, in Isaiah 10:18 and the Assyrian monarch is said to be a cedar in Lebanon, Ezekiel 31:3 which fell by the hands of one of the mighty angels, 2 Kings 19:35 some, because of this last clause, think that this and the preceding verse

Isaiah 10:33 are to be understood of the calamities that should come upon the Jews, at the time of the Babylonish captivity; for though Sennacherib should stop at Nob; and proceed no further, however should not be able to take Jerusalem, yet hereafter a successor of his should; and, according to this sense, by the "bough" lopped may be meant Jeconiah, or Zedekiah king of Judah; by the "high ones of stature", and the "haughty" ones, his children, the princes of the blood, and the nobles of the land; and by the "thickets of the forest", the common people, who were either killed or carried captive; and by Lebanon, the temple, Zechariah 11:1 and by the "mighty one", Nebuchadnezzar that burnt it. And some of the ancient Jews interpret this last clause of the destruction of the temple by Vespasian; they observe upon this passage in one place m, there is no mighty one but a king, as in

Jeremiah 30:21 and there is no Lebanon but the house of the sanctuary, according to Deuteronomy 3:25 wherefore when a certain Jew saluted Vespasian as a king, and he replied that he was no king, the Jew made answer, if thou art not a king, thou shall be one; for this house (meaning the temple) shall not be destroyed but by the hands of a king, as it is said, "and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one" n.

m T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 56. 2. n Midrash Echa Rabbati, fol 46. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest - The army of the Assyrians, described here as a thick, dense forest; compare Isaiah 10:18-19.

With iron - As a forest is cut down with an axe, so the prophet uses this phrase here, to keep up and carry out the figure. The army was destroyed with the pestilence 2 Kings 19:35; but it fell as certainly as a forest falls before the axe.

And Lebanon - Lebanon is here evidently descriptive of the army of the Assyrian, retaining the idea of a beautiful and magnificent forest. Thus, in Ezekiel 31:3, it is said, ‘the king of the Assyrians was a cedar of Lebanon with fair branches.’ Lebanon is usually applied to the Jews as descriptive of them (Jeremiah 22:6, Jeremiah 22:23; Zechariah 10:10; Zechariah 11:0: l), but it is evidently applied here to the Assyrian army; and the sense is, that that army should be soon and certainly destroyed, and that, therefore, the inhabitants of Jerusalem had no cause of alarm; see the notes at Isaiah 37:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 10:34. Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one — באדיר beaddir, the angel of the Lord, who smote them, Kimchi. And so Vitringa understands it. Others translate, "The high cedars of Lebanon shall fall:" but the king of Assyria is the person who shall be overthrown.