2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; and mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
4 Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; they have set up their ensigns for signs.
5 They seemed as men that lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees.
6 And now all the carved work thereof together they break down with hatchet and hammers.
7 They have set thy sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling place of thy name even to the ground.
8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.