3 Lift Your steps toward the perpetual ruins— an enemy has done all evil to the Sanctuary!
4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place. They have set up their standards as signs.
5 It seemed like bringing up axes into a thicket of trees—
6 and now all its carved work they smash with hatchet and hammers!
7 They set Your Sanctuary on fire, burning it to the ground. They defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
8 They said in their hearts: “Let us crush them totally!” They burned down all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our signs. No longer is there any prophet— and no one among us knows how long.