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Psalm 74:5

World English Bible

They behaved like men wielding axes,
cutting through a thicket of trees.

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Psalm 74:5 in other translations

They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

Psalm 74:5 · American Standard Version

Psalm 74:5 in context

  1. 3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,
    all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
  2. 4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly.
    They have set up their standards as signs.
  3. 5They behaved like men wielding axes,
    cutting through a thicket of trees.
  4. 6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
  5. 7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.
    They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.