^18 (A)Your holy people have possessed it but a little while;
^(B)Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

³ Lift up Your feet to the perpetual desolations.
The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
^4 (A)Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place;
^(B)They set up their banners for signs.
⁵ They seem like men who lift up
Axes among the thick trees.
⁶ And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.
⁷ They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.

²⁴ His power shall be mighty, ^(A)but not by his own power;
He shall destroy ^[a]fearfully,
^(B)And shall prosper and thrive;
^(C)He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people.

4 How the gold has become dim!
How changed the fine gold!
The stones of the sanctuary are ^[a]scattered
At the head of every street.

¹¹ Our holy and beautiful ^[a]temple,
Where our fathers praised You,
Is burned up with fire;
And all ^(A)our pleasant things ^[b]are laid waste.
^12 (B)Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?
^(C)Will You ^[c]hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?