Psalm 74:5–7
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74:5They invade like lumberjacks
swinging their axes in a thick forest.11
74:6And now12 they are tearing down13 all its engravings14
74:7They set your sanctuary on fire;
they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.17
Footnotes
- 11 Heb “it is known like one bringing upwards, in a thicket of wood, axes.” The Babylonian invaders destroyed the woodwork in the temple.
- 12 This is the reading of the Qere (marginal reading). The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and a time.”
- 13 The imperfect verbal form vividly describes the act as underway.
- 14 Heb “its engravings together.”
- 15 This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [], 49–50).
- 16 This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT. An Akkadian cognate refers to a “pickaxe” (cf. “hatchet and pick”; “axes and hatchets”; “hatchets and hammers”).
- 17 Heb “to the ground they desecrate the dwelling place of your name.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
They were like those who swing axes
in a forest of trees.
And all its carved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
They set your sanctuary on fire;
they profaned the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
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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.
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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.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
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.
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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.
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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.
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