King James Version
Psalms 74:5 in the King James Version says “A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 74 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.”
Psalms 74:5 · KJV
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
They 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
KJV Study — Public Domain
“A man was famous”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“according as he had lifted up”
H935to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
properly,the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc
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