Psalm 74:6

6 With axes and picks, they smashed the carved paneling.

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 There your enemies shouted their victorious battle cries; there they set up their battle standards.

5 They swung their axes like woodcutters in a forest.

6 With axes and picks, they smashed the carved paneling.

7 They burned your sanctuary to the ground. They defiled the place that bears your name.

8 Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!” So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.