11 (A)Our holy and beautiful[a] house,
    where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 64:11 Or holy and glorious

They were like those who swing (A)axes
    in a forest of trees.[a]
And all its (B)carved wood
    they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
They (C)set your sanctuary on fire;
    they (D)profaned (E)the dwelling place of your name,
    bringing it down to the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:5 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

(A)And he burned the house of the Lord (B)and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

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10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
    over all her (A)precious things;
for she has seen (B)the nations
    enter her sanctuary,
those whom you (C)forbade
    to enter your congregation.

11 All her people (D)groan
    as (E)they search for bread;
they trade their (F)treasures for (G)food
    to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
    for I am despised.”

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Jerusalem remembers
    in the days of her affliction and wandering
(A)all the precious things
    that were hers from (B)days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the foe,
    and there was none to help her,
her foes gloated over her;
    they (C)mocked at her downfall.

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19 (A)And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.

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21 ‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and (B)your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

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(A)The Lord has scorned his altar,
    (B)disowned his sanctuary;
(C)he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
    the walls of her palaces;
(D)they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of festival.

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13 And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

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But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, (A)there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

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25 “As for you, (A)son of man, surely on the day when I take from them (B)their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul's desire, and also their sons and daughters,

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20 (A)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and (B)they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore (C)I make it an unclean thing to them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of (D)foreigners for prey, (E)and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and (F)they shall profane it.

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25 (A)And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, (B)according to the commandment of David and of Gad (C)the king's seer and of (D)Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the Lord through his prophets. 26 The Levites stood with (E)the instruments of David, (F)and the priests with the trumpets. 27 Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, (G)the song to the Lord began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel. 28 The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished. 29 When the offering was finished, (H)the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped. 30 And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.

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The priests stood at their posts; (A)the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord(B)for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry;[a] (C)opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 7:6 Hebrew by their hand

When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, “For he is good, (A)for his steadfast love endures forever.”

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And he said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,

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56 “Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. (A)Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.

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14 Then the king turned around and (A)blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.

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