Forests

The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.

Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice

• Iron

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

Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

• Revivals

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

• Sarcasm

And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.

For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.