1. God, why have you abandoned us forever?Why does your anger smolderat the sheep of your own pasture?
2. Remember your congregationthat you took as your own long ago,that you redeemed to be the tribe of your own possession—remember Mount Zion, where you dwell.
3. March to the unending ruins,to all that the enemy destroyed in the sanctuary.
4. Your enemies roared in your own meeting place;they set up their own signs there!
5. It looked like axes raisedagainst a thicket of trees.
6. And then all its carvingsthey hacked down with hatchet and pick.
7. They set fire to your sanctuary, burned it to the ground;they defiled the dwelling place of your name.
8. They said in their hearts, We’ll kill all of them together!They burned all of God’s meeting places in the land.
9. We don’t see our own signs anymore.No prophet is left.And none of us know how long it will last.