Psalms 74:6
they have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
In Context
5and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,
7They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:29And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
1 Kings 6:35And two doors of fir tree, one of each side : and each door was double, and so opened with folding leaves.
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 →