It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes,

他们好像人扬起斧子，砍伐林中的树。

好像人扬起斧子对着林中的树，

好像人扬起斧子对着林中的树，

他们大肆毁坏，好像人抡起斧头砍伐树林。

他们好像那些举起斧子，在树林中砍伐树木的人。

他们像是在树林中挥斧头的人；

他們好像人揚起斧子，砍伐林中的樹。

好像人揚起斧子對着林中的樹，

好像人揚起斧子對着林中的樹，

他們大肆毀壞，好像人掄起斧頭砍伐樹林。

他們好像那些舉起斧子，在樹林中砍伐樹木的人。

在上邊的出入口拿斧子砍了格子籬。

他們像是在樹林中揮斧頭的人；

勢如舉斧、以伐叢林兮、

彼舉斧斤、遍伐林木、以此自誇兮、

觀其所為、如人舉斧砍伐林木、

持斧砍聖門。洋洋無畏忌。

They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees.

They acted like people cutting down a forest with axes.

They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.

They swung their axes like woodcutters in a forest.

It seems like one bringing up His axe into a forest of trees.

They seem like men who lift up Axes among the thick trees.

They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes,

[ A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan. His father is a man of Tyre. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, with purple, blue, crimson yarn, and fine linen. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and to execute any design that may be given him. I have sent him to be with your artisans and the artisans of my lord, your father David.

“ Therefore, command that cedars from Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants’ wages according to whatever you say, for you know that not a man among us knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

Egypt will hiss like a slithering snake, for the enemy will come with an army; with axes they will come against her like those who cut trees.They will cut down her forest— this is the LORD’s declaration— though it is dense, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.