Isaiah 9:10:
'The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.'
(NIV)
The bricks have fallen, but we will build [all the better] with hewn stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put [costlier] cedars in their place.
(AMP)
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
(KJV)
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,...
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Only when the last tree has been felled, the last river poisoned and the last fish caught, man will know, that he cannot eat money.
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