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Psalm 74:5–6

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5They were like those who swing faxes

in a forest of trees.2

6And all its gcarved wood

they broke down with hatchets and hammers.

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Footnotes

  1. 2The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Cross references

  1. f[Jer. 46:22]
  2. g[1 Kgs. 6:18, 29, 32, 35]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They behaved like men wielding axes

to cut through a thicket of trees.

They smashed all the carved paneling

with their axes and hatchets.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

It was like men in a thicket of trees,

wielding axes,

then smashing all the carvings

with hatchets and picks.

NLTNew Living Translation

They swung their axes

like woodcutters in a forest.

With axes and picks,

they smashed the carved paneling.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They are known to be like those who wield

axes in a thicket of trees.

And now its carved works altogether

they have smashed with axe and hammer.

KJV 1900King James Version

A man was famous according as he had lifted up

Axes upon the thick trees.

But now they break down the carved work thereof

At once with axes and hammers.