¹⁰ Enemies have stretched out their hands
    over all her precious things;
she has even seen the nations
    invade her sanctuary,
those whom you forbade
    to enter your congregation.^(A)

⁷ Jerusalem remembers^[a] all the precious things
    that were hers in days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy
    and there was no one to help her,
the enemy looked on;
    they mocked over her downfall.^(A)

⁴ Your foes have roared within your holy place;
    they set up their emblems there.^(A)
5 At the upper entrance they hacked
    the wooden trellis with axes.^[a](B)
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.^(C)
8 They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.^(D)