Psalm 74:6

6 They smashed all its carved paneling with axes and hatchets.

Psalm 74:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 74:6

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with
axes and hammers.
] Formerly it was an honour to be employed in cutting down a tree for the building of the temple; but now so little regard was paid to it, that all its fine carved work, which Solomon made, ( 1 Kings 6:18 1 Kings 6:29 1 Kings 6:30 ) , was demolished at once in a rude and furious manner with axes and hammers; which was done either by the Chaldeans in Nebuchadnezzar's time, or by the Syrians in the times of Antiochus, or by the Romans in the times of Vespasian; the first seems intended; see ( Jeremiah 46:22 Jeremiah 46:23 ) .

Psalm 74:6 In-Context

4 Your opponents have roared inside your meeting place. They have set up their own emblems as symbols.

5 Starting from its entrance, they hacked away like a woodcutter in a forest.

6 They smashed all its carved paneling with axes and hatchets.

7 They burned your holy place to the ground. They dishonored the place where you live among us.

8 They said to themselves, "We will crush them." They burned every meeting place of God in the land.