Psalm 74:5-6 New English Translation
5 They invade like lumberjacks
swinging their axes in a thick forest.[a]
6 And now[b] they are tearing down[c] all its engravings[d]
with axes[e] and crowbars.[f]
Footnotes
- Psalm 74:5 tn Heb “it is known like one bringing upwards, in a thicket of wood, axes.” The Babylonian invaders destroyed the woodwork in the temple.
- Psalm 74:6 tn This is the reading of the Qere (marginal reading). The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and a time.”
- Psalm 74:6 tn The imperfect verbal form vividly describes the act as underway.
- Psalm 74:6 tn Heb “its engravings together.”
- Psalm 74:6 tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 49-50).
- Psalm 74:6 tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT. An Akkadian cognate refers to a “pickaxe” (cf. NEB “hatchet and pick”; NIV “axes and hatchets”; NRSV “hatchets and hammers”).
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