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Psalms 74:6

Context

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”).



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