5They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees.


In Context

2 Remember the people you purchased of old, the tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed- Mount Zion, where you dwelt.

3 Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins, all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

4 Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; they set up their standards as signs.

5 They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees.

6 They smashed all the carved paneling with their axes and hatchets.

7 They burned your sanctuary to the ground; they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.

Psalms 74:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

74:5[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

74:5and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

74:5They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

74:5A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

74:5They seemed as men that lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

74:5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

74:5They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

74:5He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood — axes.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

74:5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes on the thick trees.