¹² for they said, “Let us seize for our own use
    these pasturelands of God!”

⁴ “Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation.
    We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

⁷ They burned your sanctuary to the ground.
    They defiled the place that bears your name.
⁸ Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!”
    So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.