3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly.They have set up their standards as signs.
5 They behaved like men wielding axes,cutting through a thicket of trees.
6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
8 They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.”They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
9 We see no miraculous signs.There is no longer any prophet,neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.