Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes.
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.
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 74:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Israel
4 Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns. 5 He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes. 6 And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 5:6
'And now, command, and they cut down for me cedars out of Lebanon, and my servants are with thy servants, and the hire of thy servants I give to thee according to all that thou sayest, for thou hast known that there is not among us a man acquainted with cutting wood, like the Sidonians.'
2 Chronicles 2:14
(son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre), knowing to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and in wood, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, and to grave any graving, and to devise any device that is given to him, with thy wise men, and the wise men of my lord David thy father.
Jeremiah 46:22-23
Its voice as a serpent goeth on, For with a force they go, And with axes they have come in to her, As hewers of trees.