1. Why, O God hast thou cast off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
2. Remember thine assembly, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the portion of thine inheritance, this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
3. Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
4. Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.
5. A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees;
6. And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.