| Psalm 74:5 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | It seems as if one had lifted up His axe in a forest of trees. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Starting from its entrance, they hacked away like a woodcutter in a forest. (GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. |
| ASV: | They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. |
| BBE: | They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees. |
| DBY: | A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees; |
| ERV: | They seemed as men that lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees. |
| JPS: | It seemed as when men wield upwards axes in a thicket of trees. |
| WBS: | 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. |
| YLT: | He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes. |
| Psalm 74:5 Cross References |
| XREF: | Jeremiah 46:22 "Its sound moves along like a serpent; For they move on like an army And come to her as woodcutters with axes. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 74:5 [A man] was famous according as he had {d} lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
(d) He commends the temple for the costly matter, the excellent workmanship and beauty of it, which nonetheless the enemies destroyed. |
| WES: | 74:5 Famous - The temple was so noble a structure, that it was a great honour to any man to be employed in the meanest part of the work, though it were but in cutting down the trees of Lebanon. |
| MHC: | 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 Christ has redeemed with his own blood. Infidels and persecutors may silence faithful ministers, and shut up places of worship, and say they will destroy the people of God and their religion together. For a long time they may prosper in these attempts, and God's oppressed servants may see no prospect of deliverance; but there is a remnant of believers, the seed of a future harvest, and the despised church has survived those who once triumphed over her. When the power of enemies is most threatening, it is comfortable to flee to the power of God by earnest prayer. |
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