Isaiah 10:34

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”