74:6 And now 1 they are tearing down 2 all its engravings 3
with axes 4 and crowbars. 5
1 tn This is the reading of the Qere (marginal reading). The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and a time.”
2 tn The imperfect verbal form vividly describes the act as underway.
3 tn Heb “its engravings together.”
4 tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 49-50).
5 tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT. An Akkadian cognate refers to a “pickaxe” (cf. NEB “hatchet and pick”; NIV “axes and hatchets”; NRSV “hatchets and hammers”).