Psalms 74:6

smashing with hatchets and hammers all of its carved work together.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5hacking, like woodsmen who lift axes on thickets of trees,

7They have set your temple on fire, to the very ground they have outraged the place where lives your name.

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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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