World English Bible
"They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees."
— Psalms 74:5, World English Bible
“A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.”
“They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. ”
“They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.”
“I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.”
“They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.”
“A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.”
Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.