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.
7 They wrecked your Temple and set it on fire;they desecrated the place where you are worshipped.
8 They wanted to crush us completely;they burnt down every holy place in the land.