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Psalm 74:5

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74:5They invade like lumberjacks

swinging their axes in a thick forest.11

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Footnotes

  1. 11 Heb “it is known like one bringing upwards, in a thicket of wood, axes.” The Babylonian invaders destroyed the woodwork in the temple.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

They were like those who swing axes

in a forest of trees.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They behaved like men wielding axes

to cut through a thicket of trees.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

It was like men in a thicket of trees,

wielding axes,

NLTNew Living Translation

They swung their axes

like woodcutters in a forest.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They are known to be like those who wield

axes in a thicket of trees.

KJV 1900King James Version

A man was famous according as he had lifted up

Axes upon the thick trees.