Psalms 74:5 · KJV
“{A man} was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.”
— Psalms 74:5
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns {for} signs.
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Psalms 74 — Context
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; {even} all {that} the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns {for} signs.
5{A man} was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled {by casting down} the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. {They have cast...: Heb. They have sent thy sanctuary unto the fire}
Cross References
Jeremiah 46:22-23
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
1 Kings 5:6
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that {there is} not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. {appoint: Heb. say}
2 Chronicles 2:14
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father {was} a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.