1 Why have you abandoned us like this, O God?Will you be angry with your own people for ever?
2 Remember your people, whom you chose for yourself long ago,whom you brought out of slavery to be your own tribe.Remember Mount Zion, where once you lived.
3 Walk over these total ruins;our enemies have destroyed everything in the Temple.
4 Your enemies have shouted in triumph in your Temple;they have placed their flags there as signs of victory.
5 They looked like woodmencutting down trees with their axes.
6 They smashed all the wooden panelswith their axes and sledgehammers.