Text -- Psalms 74:6 (NET)

74:6 And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 74:6

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”).