2Remember 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.
3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
5They behaved like men wielding axes, Cutting through a thicket of trees.
6Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.
7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your Name.
8They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshipped.
