Psalms 74:5 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes.

English ASV

They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

English Amplified

They seemed like men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees to make themselves a record.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

They seemed like men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees to make themselves a record.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes,

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

[A man] was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;

English EASY 2024

They used axes to cut the temple into pieces, like people who cut down trees!

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Their soldiers attacked the doors, like workmen chopping down trees.

They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

They looked like woodsmen cutting down trees with their axes.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Starting from its entrance, they hacked away like a woodcutter in a forest.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes,

English KJV 1611

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

English LSB

Each seems like one who lifts up An axe against the undergrowth of trees.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

They seem like men who wield axes in a thicket of trees.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

It seems as if one had lifted up His axe in a forest of trees.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

They hacked away like foresters gathering boughs, swinging their axes in a thicket of trees.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

They acted like people cutting down a forest with axes.

English NIV

They behaved like men wielding axes to cut through a thicket of trees.

English NKJ 1982

They seem like men who lift up Axes among the thick trees.

English NLT

They chopped down the entrance like woodcutters in a forest.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Now everything is in shambles! They’ve totally destroyed it. Like a forest chopped down to the ground, there’s nothing left.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Everything lies in shambles like a forest chopped to the ground.

English Tyndale 1537

Men may see the axes glister above, like as those that hewn in the wood.

Psalms 74:5 — Compare Translations