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Psalm 74:5

They were like those who swing faxes

in a forest of trees.2

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Psalm 74:5 — The New International Version (NIV)

They behaved like men wielding axes

to cut through a thicket of trees.

Psalm 74:5 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

A man was famous according as he had lifted up

Axes upon the thick trees.

Psalm 74:5 — New Living Translation (NLT)

They swung their axes

like woodcutters in a forest.

Psalm 74:5 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

They seem like men who lift up

Axes among the thick trees.

Psalm 74:5 — New Century Version (NCV)

They came with axes raised

as if to cut down a forest of trees.

Psalm 74:5 — American Standard Version (ASV)

They seemed as men that lifted up

Axes upon a thicket of trees.

Psalm 74:5 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

Psalm 74:5 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Starting from its entrance, they hacked away 

like a woodcutter in a forest. 

Psalm 74:5 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

It was like men in a thicket of trees,

wielding axes,

Psalm 74:5 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

At the upper entrance they hacked

the wooden trellis with axes.

Psalm 74:5 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

They are known to be like those who wield

axes in a thicket of trees.

Psalm 74:5 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

They acted like people cutting down a forest with axes.

Psalm 74:5 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

It seems as if one had lifted up

His axe in a forest of trees.


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