5. and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,
6. they have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.
7. They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.
8. They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.
9. Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.
10. How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
11. Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?
12. But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.