Psalm 74:6 They smashed all the carved paneling with their axes and hatchets.

◄ Psalm 74:6 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They smashed all the carved paneling with their axes and hatchets.

English Standard Version
And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.

New American Standard Bible
And now all its carved work They smash with hatchet and hammers.

King James Bible
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
then smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.

International Standard Version
now they're tearing down all its carved work with hatchets and hammers.

American Standard Version
And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
they have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.

Darby Bible Translation
And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,

Cross References

1 Samuel 13:20
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his ax, and his mattock.

1 Kings 6:18
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

1 Kings 6:29
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

Jeremiah 52:13
And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

74:1-11 This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him. They plead the great things God had done for them. If the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt was encouragement to hope that he would not cast them off, much more reason have we to believe, that God will not cast off any whom Christ has redeemed with his own blood. Infidels and persecutors may silence faithful ministers, and shut up places of worship, and say they will destroy the people of God and their religion together. For a long time they may prosper in these attempts, and God's oppressed servants may see no prospect of deliverance; but there is a remnant of believers, the seed of a future harvest, and the despised church has survived those who once triumphed over her. When the power of enemies is most threatening, it is comfortable to flee to the power of God by earnest prayer.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. carved work—(1Ki 6:29).

thereof—that is, of the temple, in the writer's mind, though not expressed till Ps 74:7, in which its utter destruction by fire is mentioned (2Ki 25:9; Isa 64:11).