Isaiah 10:34

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall. ¹ 

biblegateway Isa 10:34

He will cut down the forest thickets with an axe; Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.

biblegateway Isa 10:34

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

biblegateway Isa 10:34

The Mighty One will cut down the enemy as an ax cuts down the forest trees in Lebanon.

biblegateway Isa 10:34

His ax will make toothpicks of that forest, that Lebanon-like army reduced to kindling.

SABDAweb Isa 10:34

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

bibleoremus Isa 10:34

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

biblegateway Isa 10:34

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

biblegateway Isa 10:34

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall. ¹ 

¹ tn The Hebrew text has, “and Lebanon, by/as [?] a mighty one, will fall.” The translation above takes the preposition בְּ (bet) prefixed to “mighty one” as indicating identity, “Lebanon, as a mighty one, will fall.” In this case “mighty one” describes Lebanon. (In Ezek 17:23 and Zech 11:2 the adjective is used of Lebanon’s cedars.) Another option is to take the preposition as indicating agency and interpret “mighty one” as a divine title (see Isa 33:21). One could then translate, “and Lebanon will fall by [the agency of] the Mighty One.”