Psalm

³Turn your steps towards these everlasting ruins,all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary. ⁴Your foes roared in the place where you met with us;they set up their standards as signs. ⁵They behaved like men wielding axesto cut through a thicket of trees. ⁶They smashed all the carved panellingwith their axes and hatchets. ⁷They burned your sanctuary to the ground;they defiled the dwelling-place of your Name. ⁸They said in their hearts, ‘We will crush them completely!’They burned every place where God was worshipped in the land. ⁹We are given no signs from God;no prophets are left,and none of us knows how long this will be.