3 Turn your steps toward these pathetic ruins.The enemy has destroyed everything in the holy temple.
4 Your opponents have roared inside your meeting place.They have set up their own emblems as symbols.
5 Starting from its entrance, they hacked awaylike a woodcutter in a forest.
6 They smashed all its carved paneling with axes and hatchets.
7 They burned your holy place to the ground.They dishonored the place where you live among us.
8 They said to themselves, “We will crush them.”They burned every meeting place of God in the land.
9 We no longer see miraculous signs.There are no prophets anymore.No one knows how long this will last.