Catholic Public Domain Version
"they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down. "
— Psalms 73:6, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.”
“Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment. ”
“Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.”
“Arrogance is their necklace, and violence covers them like clothing.”
“They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.”
“For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.”
“Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.”
Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!
And those who hate you have been glorified, in the midst of your solemnity. They have set up their own signs as a proof,
as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,
they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down.
They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.
They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: “Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land.
We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us.”