3 Direct your steps toward the utter destruction,everything the enemy laid waste in the sanctuary.
4 Your foes roared triumphantly in the place of your assembly;they set up their own tokens of victory.
5 They hacked away like a forester gathering boughs,swinging his ax in a thicket of trees.
6 They smashed all its engraved work,struck it with ax and pick.
7 They set your sanctuary on fire,profaned your name’s abode by razing it to the ground.
8 They said in their hearts, “We will destroy them all!Burn all the assembly-places of God in the land!”
9 Even so we have seen no signs for us,there is no prophet any more,no one among us who knows for how long.