2 Remember the nation you purchased long ago,the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed –Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
3 Turn your steps towards these everlasting ruins,all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.
4 Your foes roared in the place where you met with us;they set up their standards as signs.
5 They behaved like men wielding axesto cut through a thicket of trees.
6 They smashed all the carved panellingwith their axes and hatchets.
7 They burned your sanctuary to the ground;they defiled the dwelling-place of your Name.
8 They said in their hearts, ‘We will crush them completely!’They burned every place where God was worshipped in the land.