Parallel Verses
NET Bible
They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.
New American Standard Bible
His
King James Version
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Holman Bible
wielding axes,
International Standard Version
As one blazes a trail through a forest with an ax,
A Conservative Version
They seemed as men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees.
American Standard Version
They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.
Amplified
It seems as if one had lifted up
An axe in a forest of trees [to set a record of destruction].
Bible in Basic English
They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.
Darby Translation
A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
Julia Smith Translation
It will be known according to bringing the axes upwards upon the thicket of wood.
King James 2000
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They are known [to be] like [those who] {wield} axes in a thicket of trees.
Modern King James verseion
He is known as one bringing axes on high, on the thick trees.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees was known to bring it to an excellent work.
New Heart English Bible
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
The Emphasized Bible
One used to be known according as he carried up high - into the thicket of trees - the axes;
Webster
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
World English Bible
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
Youngs Literal Translation
He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 74:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Israel
4 Your enemies roar in the middle of your sanctuary; they set up their battle flags. 5 They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest. 6 And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 5:6
So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians."
2 Chronicles 2:14
whose mother is a Danite and whose father is a Tyrian. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stones, and wood, as well as purple, violet, white, and crimson fabrics. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and understands any design given to him. He will work with your skilled craftsmen and the skilled craftsmen of my lord David your father.
Jeremiah 46:22-23
Egypt will run away, hissing like a snake, as the enemy comes marching up in force. They will come against her with axes as if they were woodsmen chopping down trees.