Parallel Verses
King James Version
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
New American Standard Bible
His
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.
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 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. 5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. 6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Kings 5:6
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
2 Chronicles 2:14
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Jeremiah 46:22-23
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.