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 midst 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 all its carved work They break 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 worshipped.
9 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, Neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
