then smashing all the carvings
with hatchets and picks.(A)
They set Your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly[a] desecrated
the dwelling place of Your name.(B)
They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned down every place throughout the land
where God met with us.[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:7 Lit they to the ground
  2. Psalm 74:8 Lit every meeting place of God in the land

They smashed all the carved(A) paneling
    with their axes and hatchets.
They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled(B) the dwelling place(C) of your Name.(D)
They said in their hearts, “We will crush(E) them completely!”
    They burned(F) every place where God was worshiped in the land.

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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 said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

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