⁴ Your foes roared^(B) in the place where you met with us;
    they set up their standards^(C) as signs.
⁵ They behaved like men wielding axes
    to cut through a thicket of trees.^(D)

⁵ They behaved like men wielding axes
    to cut through a thicket of trees.^(A)
6 They smashed all the carved^(B) paneling
    with their axes and hatchets.
⁷ They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
    they defiled^(C) the dwelling place^(D) of your Name.^(E)

²⁰ Have regard for your covenant,^(A)
    because haunts of violence fill the dark places^(B) of the land.
²¹ Do not let the oppressed^(C) retreat in disgrace;
    may the poor and needy^(D) praise your name.