Psalms 74:5
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Psalms 74:5 in other translations
| BSB | like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees |
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| WEB | They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. |
| ASV | They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. |
| YLT | He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood--axes. |
| DARBY | A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees; |
| BBE | They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees. |
| Webster | A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. |
What does Psalms 74:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 74:5-6
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 74:1-11
This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him. They plead the great things God had done for them. If the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt was encouragement to hope that he would not cast them off, much more reason have we to believe, that God will not cast off any whom…
Psalms 74:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 74:5
- Jeremiah 46:22-23
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
- 2 Chronicles 2:14
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
- 1 Kings 5:6
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
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Context
- Psalms 74:4
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
- Psalms 74:5
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
- Psalms 74:6
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Psalms 74:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cualquiera se hacía famoso según que había levantado el hacha sobre los gruesos maderos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Un homme se faisait connaître quand il élevait la hache dans l’épaisseur de la forêt; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sie erscheinen wie einer, der die Axt emporhebt im Dickicht des Waldes; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dixi iniquis: Nolite inique agere: et delinquentibus: Nolite exaltare cornu: |