Pen

Writing in the Bible is done with whatever hard or fine tool the moment needs. Job wishes his words were “graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever.” The psalmist, with a heart full of a good matter, says his tongue is “the pen of a ready writer,” while Jeremiah turns the image against Judah, saying that the scribes’ pen has been used in vain and that sin is written with a pen of iron. Isaiah is told to take a great roll and write on it with a man’s pen. Judges 5 even mentions those who handle the writer’s pen among Zebulun’s people.

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Judges

Judges 5:14

Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

Job

Job 19:24

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

Psalms

Psalms 45:1

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Isaiah

Isaiah 8:1

Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 8:8

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.