Psalms 74:3-8 ▼

3 Lift up Your steps to the continuous desolations, || Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

4 Your adversaries have roared, || In the midst of Your meeting-places, || They have set their ensigns as ensigns.

5 He is known as one bringing in on high || Against a thicket of wood—axes.

6 And now they break down its engravings, || Together, with axe and hatchet,

7 They have sent Your sanctuary into fire, || They defiled the Dwelling Place of Your Name to the earth,

8 They said in their hearts, “Let us oppress them together,” || They burned all the meeting-places of God in the land.