Psalm 74:2-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago,
which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage.
Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.(A)
3 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins;
the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.(B)
4 Your foes have roared within your holy place;
they set up their emblems there.(C)
5 At the upper entrance they hacked
the wooden trellis with axes.[a](D)
6 And then, with hatchets and hammers,
they smashed all its carved work.
7 They set your sanctuary on fire;
they desecrated the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it to the ground.(E)
8 They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.(F)
Footnotes
- 74.5 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
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