Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They smashed all the carved paneling with their axes and hatchets. New Living Translation With axes and picks, they smashed the carved paneling. English Standard Version And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers. Berean Standard Bible and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. King James Bible But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. New King James Version And now they break down its carved work, all at once, With axes and hammers. New American Standard Bible And now they break down all its carved work With axe and hammers. NASB 1995 And now all its carved work They smash with hatchet and hammers. NASB 1977 And now all its carved work They smash with hatchet and hammers. Legacy Standard Bible And now its carved work altogether They smash with hatchet and hammers. Amplified Bible And now all the carved work [of the meeting place] They smash with hatchets and hammers. Christian Standard Bible then smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. Holman Christian Standard Bible then smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. American Standard Version And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers. Contemporary English Version They used axes and hatchets to smash the carvings. English Revised Version And now all the carved work thereof together they break down with hatchet and hammers. GOD'S WORD® Translation They smashed all its carved paneling with axes and hatchets. Good News Translation They smashed all the wooden panels with their axes and sledge hammers. International Standard Version now they're tearing down all its carved work with hatchets and hammers. Majority Standard Bible and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. NET Bible And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars. New Heart English Bible Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. Webster's Bible Translation But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers. World English Bible Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd now they break down its engravings, "" Together, with axe and hatchet, Young's Literal Translation And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down, Smith's Literal Translation And now with axes and hammers they will beat her engravings. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims Biblethey have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible They smashed all its engraved work, struck it with ax and pick. New Revised Standard Version And then, with hatchets and hammers, they smashed all its carved work. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThey have destroyed everything with axes and hammers. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated They hewed down the doors together with axes, like a forest of trees with axes and with hammers. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And now all the carved work thereof together They strike down with hatchet and hammers. Brenton Septuagint Translation they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Why Have You Rejected Us Forever?…5like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees 6and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks. 7They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.… Cross References Jeremiah 52:13 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. 2 Kings 25:9 He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. Lamentations 2:7 The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast. 2 Chronicles 36:19 Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value. Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. Ezekiel 7:20-22 His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them. / And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them. / I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it. 1 Kings 9:7-8 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples. / And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ Micah 3:12 Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge. Nehemiah 2:3 and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?” Jeremiah 7:14 therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers. Matthew 24:2 “Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Mark 13:2 “Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Luke 21:6 “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.” John 2:19-21 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” / “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” / But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body. Treasury of Scripture But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. 1 Kings 6:18,29,32,35 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen… Jump to Previous Altogether Axe Axes Blades Break Broke Broken Carved Carvings Doors Hammers Iron Once Paneling Smash Smashed Strike Thereof Together Wood WorkJump to Next Altogether Axe Axes Blades Break Broke Broken Carved Carvings Doors Hammers Iron Once Paneling Smash Smashed Strike Thereof Together Wood WorkPsalm 74 1. The prophet complains of the desolation of the sanctuary10. He moves God to help in consideration of his power 18. Of his reproachful enemies, or his children and of his covenant. and now they are smashing This phrase captures a moment of intense destruction and desecration. The Hebrew root for "smashing" is "שָׁבַר" (shabar), which conveys the idea of breaking or shattering. Historically, this reflects the physical destruction of sacred spaces, likely during the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem. The act of smashing is not just physical but symbolic of the breaking of covenantal relationships and the desecration of what is holy. In a spiritual sense, it calls believers to reflect on the times when the sacred is profaned in their own lives and the need for restoration and reverence. all the carvings with hatchets and axes Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew and smashingיַהֲלֹמֽוּן׃ (ya·hă·lō·mūn) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun Strong's 1986: To strike down, to hammer, stamp, conquer, disband all יָּ֑חַד (yā·ḥaḏ) Adverb Strong's 3162: A unit, unitedly the carved work פִּתּוּחֶ֣יהָ (pit·tū·ḥe·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 6603: An engraving with hatchets בְּכַשִּׁ֥יל (bə·ḵaš·šîl) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3781: A feller, an axe and picks. וְ֝כֵֽילַפֹּ֗ת (wə·ḵê·lap·pōṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 3597: A club, sledge-hammer Links Psalm 74:6 NIVPsalm 74:6 NLT Psalm 74:6 ESV Psalm 74:6 NASB Psalm 74:6 KJV Psalm 74:6 BibleApps.com Psalm 74:6 Biblia Paralela Psalm 74:6 Chinese Bible Psalm 74:6 French Bible Psalm 74:6 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 74:6 Now they break all its carved work (Psalm Ps Psa.) |