Psalms 74:6

Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

7They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:29And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

1 Kings 6:35These were ornamented with designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, plated over with gold.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 74:2-12

Mournful Complaints. 1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. 5 A man was famous… Read the whole commentary →

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