1 God, why have you abandoned us forever?Why does your anger smolderat the sheep of your own pasture?
2 Remember your congregationthat you took as your own long ago,that you redeemed to be the tribe of your own possession—remember Mount Zion, where you dwell.
3 March to the unending ruins,to all that the enemy destroyed in the sanctuary.
4 Your enemies roared in your own meeting place;they set up their own signs there!
5 It looked like axes raisedagainst a thicket of trees.
6 And then all its carvingsthey hacked down with hatchet and pick.
7 They set fire to your sanctuary, burned it to the ground;they defiled the dwelling place of your name.