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Psalm 74:5
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KJ21
Once 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.
AMP
It seems as if one had lifted up An axe in a forest of trees [to set a record of destruction].
AMPC
They seemed like men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees to make themselves a record.
BRG
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
CSB
It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes,
CSBA
It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes,
CEB
It looked like axes raised against a thicket of trees.
CJB
The place seemed like a thicket of trees when lumbermen hack away with their axes.
CEV
It looks like a forest chopped to pieces.
DARBY
[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
DRA
I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.
ERV
Their soldiers attacked the doors, like workmen chopping down trees.
EASY
They used axes to cut the temple into pieces, like people who cut down trees!
EHV
They looked like men swinging axes in a thicket of trees.
ESV
They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.
ESVUK
They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.
EXB
·They came with axes raised [or They hacked at the upper entrances] as if to cut down a forest of trees.
GNV
He that lifted the axes upon the thick trees, was renowned as one that brought a thing to perfection:
GW
Starting from its entrance, they hacked away like a woodcutter in a forest.
GNT
They looked like woodsmen cutting down trees with their axes.
HCSB
It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes,
ICB
They came with axes raised as if to cut down a forest of trees.
ISV
As one blazes a trail through a forest with an ax,
JUB
Renowned, as one on the way to heaven, he who lifted up axes upon the thick trees for the work of the sanctuary.
KJV
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
AKJV
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
LSB
Each seems like one who lifts up An axe against the undergrowth of trees.
LEB
They are known to be like those who wield axes in a thicket of trees.
TLB
Everything lies in shambles like a forest chopped to the ground. They came with their axes and sledgehammers and smashed and chopped the carved paneling;
MSG
While your people were at worship, your enemies barged in, brawling and scrawling graffiti. They set fire to the porch; axes swinging, they chopped up the woodwork, Beat down the doors with sledgehammers, then split them into kindling. They burned your holy place to the ground, violated the place of worship. They said to themselves, “We’ll wipe them all out,” and burned down all the places of worship.
MEV
They seem like men who lift up axes on a thicket of trees.
NOG
Starting from its entrance, they hacked away like a woodcutter in a forest.
NABRE
They hacked away like a forester gathering boughs, swinging his ax in a thicket of trees.
NASB
It seems like one bringing up His axe into a forest of trees.
NASB1995
It seems as if one had lifted up His axe in a forest of trees.
NCB
They set upon it with their axes as if it were a thicket of trees.
NCV
They came with axes raised as if to cut down a forest of trees.
NET
They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.
NIRV
They acted like people cutting down a forest with axes.
NIV
They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees.
NIVUK
They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees.
NKJV
They seem like men who lift up Axes among the thick trees.
NLV
They acted like men taking up axes against a group of trees.
NLT
They swung their axes like woodcutters in a forest.
NRSVA
At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
NRSVACE
At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
NRSVCE
At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
NRSVUE
At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
OJB
It had been as though one lifted up kardumim (axes) upon the thicket of etz.
RGT
He who lifted the axes upon the thick trees was renowned as one who brought a thing to perfection.
RSV
At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
RSVCE
At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
TLV
It seemed like bringing up axes into a thicket of trees—
VOICE
They acted like lumberjacks swinging their axes to cut down a stand of trees.
WEB
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
WYC
As in a wood of trees, they hewed down with axes the gates thereof into itself; (Like in a forest, they hewed down its gates with their axes, as if they were woodsmen;)
YLT
He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes.
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