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Psalm 74:5–7

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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.

7They hset your sanctuary on fire;

they iprofaned jthe dwelling place of your name,

bringing it down to the ground.

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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]
  3. h2 Kgs. 25:9; [Ps. 79:1]
  4. iPs. 89:39; [Lam. 2:2]
  5. j[Ps. 26:8]

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.

They burned your sanctuary to the ground;

they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

It was like men in a thicket of trees,

wielding axes,

then smashing all the carvings

with hatchets and picks.

They set your sanctuary on fire;

they utterly desecrated

the dwelling place of your name.

NLTNew Living Translation

They swung their axes

like woodcutters in a forest.

With axes and picks,

they smashed the carved paneling.

They burned your sanctuary to the ground.

They defiled the place that bears your name.

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.

They have set fire to your sanctuary.

They have defiled to the ground,

the dwelling place for your name.

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.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,

They have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.