74:5 They invade like lumberjacks
swinging their axes in a thick forest. 1
80:13 The wild boars of the forest ruin it; 2
the insects 3 of the field feed on it.
83:14 Like the fire that burns down the forest,
or the flames that consume the mountainsides, 4
1 tn Heb “it is known like one bringing upwards, in a thicket of wood, axes.” The Babylonian invaders destroyed the woodwork in the temple.
2 tn The Hebrew verb כִּרְסֵם (kirsem, “to eat away; to ruin”) occurs only here in the OT.
3 tn The precise referent of the Hebrew word translated “insects,” which occurs only here and in Ps 50:11, is uncertain. Aramaic, Arabic, and Akkadian cognates refer to insects, such as locusts or crickets.
4 sn The imagery of fire and flames suggests unrelenting, destructive judgment.