Isaiah 44:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.”
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“He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Cutting down to himself cedars, He taketh also a cypress, and an oak, And he strengtheneth <FI>it<Fi> for himself Among the trees of a forest, He hath planted an ash, and the shower doth nourish <FI>it<Fi> .”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 44:14 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 40:20To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?
- Jeremiah 10:3For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
- Hosea 4:12My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
- Habakkuk 2:19Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”
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