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Psalm 74:4-8
English Standard Version
Psalm 74:4-8
English Standard Version
4 Your foes have (A)roared in the midst of your meeting place;
(B)they set up their (C)own signs for (D)signs.
5 They were like those who swing (E)axes
in a forest of trees.[a]
6 And all its (F)carved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7 They (G)set your sanctuary on fire;
they (H)profaned (I)the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
8 They (J)said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
Footnotes
- Psalm 74:5 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Psalm 74:4-8
New International Version
Psalm 74:4-8
New International Version
4 Your foes roared(A) in the place where you met with us;
they set up their standards(B) as signs.
5 They behaved like men wielding axes
to cut through a thicket of trees.(C)
6 They smashed all the carved(D) paneling
with their axes and hatchets.
7 They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
they defiled(E) the dwelling place(F) of your Name.(G)
8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush(H) them completely!”
They burned(I) every place where God was worshiped in the land.
Psalm 74:4-8
King James Version
Psalm 74:4-8
King James Version
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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