Psalm 74:5
World English Bible (WEB)
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
In context
3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
Psalm 74:5 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
- KJV King James Version
- A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
- ASV American Standard Version
- They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood — axes.
- DBY Darby Translation
- [A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
- WBS Webster Bible
- A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.