2. Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old,which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance;Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
3. Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4. Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly.They have set up their standards as signs.
5. They behaved like men wielding axes,cutting through a thicket of trees.
6. Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7. They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8. They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.”They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
9. We see no miraculous signs.There is no longer any prophet,neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
10. How long, God, shall the adversary reproach?Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?