Psalms 74:5
“A man was famous according as he had lifted vp axes vpon the thicke trees.”
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Psalms 74:5 Context
3Lift vp thy feete vnto the perpetuall desolations: euen all that the enemie hath done wickedly in the Sanctuarie. 4Thine enemies roare in the midst of thy congregations: they set vp their ensignes for signes. 5A man was famous according as he had lifted vp axes vpon the thicke trees. 6But now they breake downe the carued worke thereof at once, with axes and hammers. 7They haue cast fire into thy Sanctuary, they haue defiled by casting downe, the dwelling place of thy Nawe to the ground.
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Other Translations for Psalms 74:5
[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
- King James Version
It seems as if one had lifted up {His} axe in a forest of trees.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.
- American Standard Version (1901)
They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.
- Basic English Bible
[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
- Darby Bible
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
- Webster's Bible
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
- World English Bible
He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes.
- Youngs Literal Bible
It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Psalms 74:5
74:5 Famous - The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work, though it were but in cutting down the trees of Lebanon.