Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
They are known [to be] like [those who] {wield} axes in a thicket of trees.
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.
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.
NET Bible
They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.
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 have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they have set up their signs [for] signs. 5 They are known [to be] like [those who] {wield} axes in a thicket of trees. 6 And now its carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 5:6
So then, command that they may cut cedars for me from Lebanon, and let my servants be with your servants. The wage of your servants I will give to you according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows [how] to cut timber like the Sidonians."
2 Chronicles 2:14
a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, knowledgeable for working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and with purple, blue, and crimson fabric, and with fine linen, for engraving any engraving and devising any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and the skilled men of my lord David your father.
Jeremiah 46:22-23
Her sound [is] like a snake [that] glides away, for they march in force. And with axes they come to her like those who chop trees.