Psalm
Chapters 74:3-9
New International Version Anglicized
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.