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Psalms 74:5

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.

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.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
KJV
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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.
DARBY
[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
BLB
He made himself known like one bringing on high axes against a thicket of tree;
ÅB
Det var et syn som når økser løftes i tykke skogen.
OTB
Det virker som en som løfter
En øks inn i en skog av trær.
B1930
Det var et syn som når økser løftes i tykke skogen.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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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