3 Make your way through these old ruins;the enemy wrecked everything in the Temple.
4 Those who were against you shouted in your meeting placeand raised their flags there.
5 They came with axes raisedas if to cut down a forest of trees.
6 They smashed the carved panelswith their axes and hatchets.
7 They burned your Temple to the ground;they have made the place where you live unclean.
8 They thought, “We will completely crush them!”They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.
9 We do not see any signs.There are no more prophets,and no one knows how long this will last.