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Psalm 74:6

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
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Notice

Hatchet and hammers turn the sanctuary’s carved work into wreckage, making the violence against a place of worship concrete and hard to pass over.

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Where else Scripture says this

4 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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1 Kings 6:18There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.Kings describes cedar carved with buds and flowers within the house; the psalm describes the destruction of the sanctuary’s carved work.
1 Kings 6:35He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.The gold-covered carvings in Kings show the care spent on work of the kind the psalm describes being smashed.
1 Kings 6:29He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.Kings records carved figures across the house’s walls, while the psalm records an attack on the sanctuary’s carved work.
1 Kings 6:32So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold …Kings describes carved olive-wood doors overlaid with gold; both passages draw attention to crafted details in the place of worship.
Where this verse fits

Grief. injustice and anger.

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Name one loss before God without softening it

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Encouragement

God’s sanctuary is being attacked, and the psalm names the damage without restraint. Such grief has a place in prayer, even before any answer comes.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).