KJV King James Version
[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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Psalm 74:5
[A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
WEB World English Bible
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through 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.
Surrounding context — Psalm 74
2 Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns [for] signs.
5 [A man] was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
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1 Kings 5:6Now 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.2 Chronicles 2:14The 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.Jeremiah 46:22-23The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
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