Lexicon :: Strong's H3293 - yaʿar

So the men went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.

‘Through your messengers you have taunted and defied the Lord,

And have said [boastfully], “With my many chariots

I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

I cut down its tall cedar trees and its choicest cypress trees.

I entered its most distant lodging, its densest forest.

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD;

For He comes to judge and govern the earth.

The voice of the LORD [fn]makes the doe labor and give birth

And strips the forests bare;

And in His temple all are saying, “Glory!”

“For every beast of the forest is Mine,

And the cattle on a thousand hills.

A boar from the woods eats it away,

And the insects of the field feed on it.

Like fire consumes the forest,

And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,

Let the field be exultant, and all that is in it.

Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

You [O LORD] make darkness and it becomes night,

In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.

Behold, we heard of it at Ephrathah;

We found it in the field of Jaar.

(The Shulammite Bride)

“Like an apple tree [rare and welcome] among the trees of the forest,

So is my beloved among the young men!

In his shade I took great delight and sat down,

And his fruit was sweet and delicious to my palate.

(The Bridegroom)

“I have come into my garden, my sister, my [promised] bride;

I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam and spice [from your sweet words].

I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;

I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Eat, friends;

Drink and drink deeply, O lovers.”

For wickedness burns like a fire;

It consumes briars and thorns,

It even sets the forest thickets ablaze;

And it swirls upward in a column of smoke.

The Lord will consume the glory of Assyria’s forest and of its fruitful garden, both soul and body,

And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe,

And Lebanon (the Assyrian) will fall by the Mighty One.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle ([fn]a burden to be carried) concerning Arabia:

In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night,

Caravans of Dedanites.

Then God removed the [protective] covering of Judah;

And in that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest (Solomon’s armory).

Is it not yet a very little while

Until Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field,

And the fertile field regarded as a forest?

Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,

And the wilderness becomes a fertile field,

And the fertile field is valued as a forest.

But it will hail, when the forest comes down,

And the [capital] city will fall in utter humiliation.

“Through your servants you have taunted and defied the Lord,

And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon.

I cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypress trees;

And I will go to its remotest height, its most luxuriant and thickest forest.

Shout for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done it!

Shout in triumph, you depths of the earth;

Break forth into jubilant rejoicing, you mountains,

O forest, and every tree in it!

For the LORD has redeemed Jacob,

And He shows His glory in Israel.

All you beasts of the field,

All you beasts (hostile nations) in the forest,

Come to eat.

Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them,

A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,

A leopard is watching their cities.

Everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,

Because their transgressions are many,

Their desertions of faith are countless.

For the customs and decrees of the peoples are [mere] delusion [exercises in futility];

It is only wood which one cuts from the forest [to make a god],

The work of the hands of the craftsman with the axe or cutting tool.

“My inheritance has become to Me

Like a lion in the forest;

She has raised her voice and roared against Me;

So I have come to [treat her as if I] hate her.

“But I will punish you in accordance with the [appropriate] consequences of your decisions and your actions,” says the LORD.

“I will kindle a fire in your forest,

And it will devour all that is around you.”’”

“Zion will be [fn]plowed like a field,

And Jerusalem will become [heaps of] ruins,

And the mountain of the house [of the LORD—Mount Moriah, on which stands the temple, shall become covered not with buildings, but] like a densely wooded height.”’

“They have cut down her forest,” says the LORD;

“Certainly it will no longer be found,

Because they (the invaders) are more numerous than locusts

And cannot be counted.