2Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.
3Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;
4Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.
5They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.
6Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.
7They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.
8They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.
