2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,The tribe of Your inheritance, which You have redeemed—This Mount Zion where You have dwelt.
3 Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations.The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
4 Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;They set up their banners for signs.
5 They seem like men who lift upAxes among the thick trees.
6 And now they break down its carved work, all at once,With axes and hammers.
7 They have set fire to Your sanctuary;They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
8 They said in their hearts,“Let us destroy them altogether.”They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.