Bible verse
like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
Psalm 74:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Psalm 74.
1 A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
2 Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion where You dwell.
3 Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
4 Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
5 like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
6 and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
7 They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
9 There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
KJV
[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.
ERV
They seemed as men that lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees.
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