the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Psalms 74:6
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And now its carved work altogetherThey smash with hatchet and hammers.
And now all its carved work They smash with hatchet and hammers.
But nowe they breake downe into peeces all the carued worke therof: with axes and hammers.
And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
And now they break down its carved work, all at once, With axes and hammers.
And now together they break down its carved work with the axe and hammers.
Using axes and hatchets, they smashed the carved panels inside.
Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.
But now they breake downe the carued worke thereof at once, with axes and hammers.
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Men maye se the axes glister aboue, like as those that hewe in the wod.
And now all the carved work [of the meeting place] They smash with hatchets and hammers.
And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.
And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers.
And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.
They used axes and hatchets to smash the carvings.
With hatchet and hammer they banged away, smashing all the carved woodwork.
But nowe they breake downe the carued worke thereof with axes and hammers.
They have destroyed everything with axes and hammers.
Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.
And now all the carved work thereof together they strike down with hatchet and hammers.
All of its fine work has been broken with axes and sticks.
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.
And now all the carved work thereof together they break down with hatchet and hammers.
and smashing all the carved work with hatchets and picks.
And then, with hatchets and hammers, they smashed all its carved work.
But, now, the doors thereof all together, with axes and hammers, they batter down.
(73-6) They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.
And now its carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer.
And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
And now they break down all its carved work With axe and hammers.
They smashed the carved panels with their axes and hatchets.
They smashed all the wooden panels with their axes and sledge hammers.
then smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
As in a wode of trees thei heweden doun with axis the yatis therof in to it silf; thei castiden doun it with an ax, and a brood fallinge ax.
And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,
And then all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
Contextual Overview
A psalm of Asaph.
O God, why have you rejected us so long? Why is your anger so intense against the sheep of your own pasture? 2 Remember that we are the people you chose long ago, the tribe you redeemed as your own special possession! And remember Jerusalem, your home here on earth. 3 Walk through the awful ruins of the city; see how the enemy has destroyed your sanctuary. 4 There your enemies shouted their victorious battle cries; there they set up their battle standards. 5 They swung their axes like woodcutters in a forest. 6 With axes and picks, they smashed the carved paneling. 7 They burned your sanctuary to the ground. They defiled the place that bears your name. 8 Then they thought, "Let's destroy everything!" So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped. 9 We no longer see your miraculous signs. All the prophets are gone, and no one can tell us when it will end. 10 How long, O God, will you allow our enemies to insult you? Will you let them dishonor your name forever?Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 Kings 6:18, 1 Kings 6:29, 1 Kings 6:32, 1 Kings 6:35
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 7:14 - as Jeremiah 52:13 - burned
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. Formerly it was an honour to be employed in cutting down a tree for the building of the temple; but now so little regard was paid to it, that all its fine carved work, which Solomon made, 1 Kings 6:18, was demolished at once in a rude and furious manner with axes and hammers; which was done either by the Chaldeans in Nebuchadnezzar's time, or by the Syrians in the times of Antiochus, or by the Romans in the times of Vespasian; the first seems intended; see
Jeremiah 46:22.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But now they break down the carved work thereof ... - literally, “But now the carvings of it together, at once, with sledge and hammers they beat down.” The carved work refers evidently to the ornaments of the temple. The word used here - פתוח pittûach - is rendered engraving, carved work, or carving; Exodus 28:11, Exodus 28:21, Exodus 28:36; Exodus 39:6, Exodus 39:14, Exodus 39:30; Zechariah 3:9; 2 Chronicles 2:14. It is the very word which in 1 Kings 6:29 is applied to the ornaments around the walls of the temple - the “carved figures of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers,” and there can be no doubt that the allusion here is to those ornaments. These were rudely cut down, or knocked off, with axes and hammers, as a man lays low the trees of the wood. The phrase “at once” means that they drove forward the work with all despatch. They spared none of them. They treated them all alike as an axeman does the trees of a forest when his object is to clear the land.
