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Psalm 74:6

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74:6And now12 they are tearing down13 all its engravings14

with axes15 and crowbars.16

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Footnotes

  1. 12 This is the reading of the Qere (marginal reading). The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and a time.”
  2. 13 The imperfect verbal form vividly describes the act as underway.
  3. 14 Heb “its engravings together.”
  4. 15 This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [], 49–50).
  5. 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”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And all its carved wood

they broke down with hatchets and hammers.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They smashed all the carved paneling

with their axes and hatchets.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

then smashing all the carvings

with hatchets and picks.

NLTNew Living Translation

With axes and picks,

they smashed the carved paneling.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And now its carved works altogether

they have smashed with axe and hammer.

KJV 1900King James Version

But now they break down the carved work thereof

At once with axes and hammers.